Hinkmond,
The current netbsd for iPAQ boot method uses a new generalized loader,
hpcboot.exe. That already compiles for iPAQ using eVC. What I don't know
is what needs to be changed to load Linux instead of NetBSD.
Perhaps one or more of the Linux bootstrap gurus who have already written
bootloader code could provide some information about the process so that
someone else can adapt hpcboot. I believe that the distribution packaging
would also need to be prepared differently for CF, rather than the ROM
images.
--- Noel
-----Original Message-----
From: ipaq-admin@handhelds.org On Behalf Of Hinkmond Wong
Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2001 13:17
To: jamey@crl.dec.com; brad@ltc.com; Hinkmond.Wong@eng.sun.com;
I looked at CyaCE (which boots Casio Casiopeias from WinCE into Linux
nicely)
for a while and got some helpful advice that the CyaCE source code needs
some
modification and recompilation on ARM before it will work for iPAQs
correctly.
I have what the proposed source code modifications should be, but have not
gotten a chance to try them. I downloaded Embedded Visual Tools from
Microsoft
from http://www.microsoft.com/mobile/developer/default.asp, but have not
gotten
the chance to use it yet to recompile CyaCE with the changes, since my
Windows
machine does not have enough disk space, and I have not had time from
regular
duties to clear it out.
Ted, if you want to pursue this, I would recommend to switch over to
investigate netbsd or pdsboot instead of CyaCE. There seems to be more
interest in using either of those instead of CyaCE now.
Hinkmond
-----Original Message-----
From: ipaq-admin@handhelds.org On Behalf Of Hicks, Jamey
netbsd can boot directly from WinCE without installing in Flash. Is anyone
looking at this code to get it to support Linux?
Nobody here is working on it currently.
Jamey
> From: tserreyn@Telenisus.com
> Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2001 08:21:50 -0600
> What his the current status of getting linux to boot on an ipaq directly
> from windowsCE?
>
> Ted Serreyn
Received on Wed Apr 18 13:31:10 2001
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