Re: [iPAQ] Re: Status on using cyace (or newer pdsboot) to boot on an ipaq witho ut burning to flash -- from cf card?

Noel,

Thanks for the update on hpcboot! I'm forwarding your e-mail to Kang
Shu Gang (kangsg@smartcomm.com.cn) who expressed interest in helping
with this project.

Kang, do you have enough information to try adapting hpcboot to boot
Linux from CompactFlash?

Hinkmond

"Noel J. Bergman" wrote:
>
> 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 14:52:17 2001