Re: Recommendations for 0.5 familiar?

How are the params passed to the OS? Is it through the kernel's "linuxargs"?
Can you tell me how these params are used and how it works for other OS or
platforms that have built-in ethernet?

Thanks.
Yee Peng

----- Original Message -----
From: "Hicks, Jamey" <Jamey.Hicks@compaq.com>
To: "'Wong Yee Peng'" <wyeepeng@dso.org.sg>; <familiar@handhelds.org>
Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2001 9:28 PM
Subject: RE: [Familiar] Recommendations for 0.5 familiar?

>
> >
> > 3) I found that the bootloader has params for network booting
> > (ip, nfsroot,
> > nfsserver address, etc). However, the code for doing that is
> > not implemente
> > yet. The loader will default to boot from flash even if I
> > specify "boot
> > nfsroot". It will be a good thing to have that so that we
> > can use the iPAQ
> > as a thin client. However, probably that will blow up the
> > bootloader since
> > we must include some or all of tcpip stack in it.
>
> The bootldr includes these params to pass to the OS. Since there is no
> built-in ethernet on the iPAQ, it doesn't help much to pass them to the
> kernel. It made sense on another platform the bootldr runs on.
>
> Jamey
>
Received on Wed Jul 25 17:56:13 2001