Re: PCMCIA is working!

Hi Marcus!

You're definitely right! The next prominent tasks are

    * usb-net
    * lcd
    * NAND flash. The above 2 are basic needs, but this third item opens
      the way to having our own bootloader and install Linux in internal
      Flash ROM. What's good is that we can first create a spare
      partition on the internal flash (is "iPAQ File Store" a
      partition?), format it and play with it until we believe the NAND
      Flash driver is reliable.

Now that PCMCIA support works, I just couldn't resist saying that I
could use my wlan CF card to connect to the outside world.

:-)

Michael.

>Gday all,
>
>wicked news, you're all doing fantastic work,
>I'm sure your efforts will be appreciated by many.
>
>I assume from Michael's comment below this results in the possibility
>of having a small(er) initrd with basic drivers (eg enough to run a cd
>card)
>and then root to cf.
>While I agree that this is handy, there are several situations where
>this will not be appropriate. As long as this possibility is taken into
>account now I have no problem with this directive (yet).
>
>Next, I regard usbnet as more important than any CF nic device.
>The solutions to be worked on (imho) need to be centered on the
>device as supplied ... not with all the goodies that can be
>obtained afterwords.
>eg1. usbnet thru the cradle is _important_
>eg2. nand flash control is _important_
>eg3. cf writability is _important_
>eg4. cf wlan is trivial in comparison and is not h2200 port specific.
>---in order of priority
>
>time for my 2 penneth worth .. I'll shutup now ;)
>
>Marcus.
>
>
>
>>Hi Koen and Andrew!
>>
>>That's great news!!! Thanks a lot for this very good work! Could you
>>tell us again where your initrd and config files are, please? I guess
>>your initrd will be very small this time, and you will also have a root
>>fs image to put on a CF card.
>>
>>
>>
>>>Hello,
>>>
>>>Thanks to our new hero Andrew Zabolotny the CF slot is working properly!
>>>I've updated the Wiki. Now this is working we can focus on the next
>>>tasks: usbnet, lcd and hamcop.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>Don't need usb net, I have a wlan CF card ;-)
>>
>>Anyway, time to work on Familiar for Linux 2.6 is getting closer. As
>>soon as networking through usb works, we will be able to handle changes
>>to our NFS mounted or CF root filesystem through ipk packages. We will
>>need to build new packages for Linux 2.6 device drivers (typically my
>>wlan CF card). It's good that GNU/Linux distributors are close to
>>releasing 2.6 based distributions.
>>
>>Mmmm... Lots of interesting things ahead!
>>
>> Thanks again!
>>
>> :-)
>>
>> Michael.
>>
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