Re: ?correction? - install.html,v 1.40 2001/06/06 14:42:04 nikos

At 12:20 AM 7/2/01 -0600, Matt Kasdorf wrote:
>Hi Nikos,
>
> In
>http://familiar.handhelds.org/familiar/releases/latest/install/H3600/instal
l.html
> you say:
>
> At the "boot>" prompt, enter: qflash 1 to detect your flashROM size.
> if the result is '0x00170017' then you have a 16MB flashROM and you
>need to enter: partition define root 0x100000 0xf00000 16 at the "boot>"
>prompt
> if the result is '0x00180018' then you have a 32MB flashROM and you
>need to enter: partition define root 0x100000 0x1f00000 16 at the
>"boot>" prompt
>
> but in "black and white" you show:
>
> boot> partition define root 0x100000 0x0 24
>
> Why are these two different? Is there somewhere I can download
>information that is much more detailed and/or get a more detailed
>explaination for what each osloader command is doing?
>

Thanks for pointing this out; it's a case of things getting out of
sync. There is very little documentation for the bootloader at this
point and I'm afraid the internal documentation needs some help. The
4 arguments of the partition define command are name, start point, length,
and type respectively. Type 16 is jffs2, type 24 is jffs2 also but
directs the bootloader to define a partition from the start point to the
end of physical flash and ignores the length argument. At one point the
directions used the 'partition define root 0x100000 0x0 24' formation as
it is clearly simpler. But there were reports of this not working reliably,
so it was decided to go with the more specific formulation until we could
be more sure of the bootloader.

Also, let me note that although I have done some editting of the documentation
a7r is the primary author; I will forward him this message as well so he
can decide if he would like to make use of your images, Thank you.

As far as your questions go, I would recommend using the Familiar mailing
list. :)

Ken Causey (nikos)

>FYI:
> The uploading of task-familiar-complete.jffs2 took almost 40 minutes.
> I've uploaded a few images from the bootldr process, they are a wee
>blurry, but please feel free to add them to the doc if you like:
>http://members.home.net/familiar-ipaq/IMG_1162s.jpg
>http://members.home.net/familiar-ipaq/IMG_1164s.jpg
>http://members.home.net/familiar-ipaq/IMG_1165s.jpg
>
>PS
> After seeing the screenshots of Familiar v0.02 I was somewhat unhappy
>with what I saw in Familiar v0.4 (complete). The keyboard doesn't seem
>to work for me when fscrib is activated; "handwriting" isn't recognized,
>very well; rxvt is huge with a tiny font. Documentation on the
>"handwriting" recognition and keyboard usage would be nice. Like how to
>make the keyboard always remain on top like ffscrib? I was also looking
>for "PDA stuff", like an mp3player, mpeg4player, contacts list, memo
>taker, battery level, etc. (Note: I've yet to run the "update"
>process.)
>
> Familiar will be a full PDA Suite of applications base on Linux, no?
>
> How soon 'til the move to GCC 3.0?
>
> When might Familiar v0.5 be released, the web site says 2001-06 :-)
>
>--
>Peace and Long Life,
>KnightFire
>
>
Received on Mon Jul 2 07:11:14 2001