RE: [iPAQ] iPAQ and USB

Hello Brain;

> Kind of related: I've heard that someone is working on storing the
> windows ce image from ram and flash, right?

Yes.

> Who is doing this?

Jamey, Dirk and myself are working on various aspects of restoring WinCE
(PocketPC).

> is there a site for the project? what is the status?

We believe that we have a method to save the WinCE bits. We know that the
boot loader writes bits to flash very well. Since units are very scarce, we
did not want test the save/restore programs before Mobicom or LWE. In the
next few days, we will be testing the restore process. If we should crash a
unit, it is a major task to solder test wires to the unit for JTAG or to
unsolder the flash chips for reprogramming. If you would like take a quick
look, there is a program called osloader in the v0.12 directory at the ftp
site. This program has a menu options to save WinCE from flash. You can then
download the files to your desktop machine. We do not know if this program
makes a correct copy of what is in flash. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED.

> why does the linux install have to be done via serial, is it because Linux
doesn't have
> good support for USB (?), or because it uses terminal
> program, etc?

It is because there is no USB driver for the boot loader at this time.

> Can USB be used to get/put a working CE image (and thus a linux image)?
>
Received on Fri Aug 18 13:16:34 2000