Re: [jornada] Jornada 720 flashboard question - Public Apology

All:

I must say, I didn't word my email very well - I ended up villifying
someone who has been working very hard to see these flashboards get
into the hands of people who can use them. I want to apologize for
my improper language, both to the person whom I slighted and to the
community at large.

-Mark Gollahon

> Marek:
>
> I tried to get the flashboard manufacturing moving a few months ago, but
> I hit a couple of brick walls. First, I could not find anyone selling
> the connector that attaches the flashboard to the J72x's mainboard.
> Second, I could not figure out a way to do a "first time" programming of
> the flash memory (i.e. to at least put a bootloader in place).
>
> Now, there was a fellow at HP that was going to send me his "stash" of
> connectors (which would have been all that we needed), but, for whatever
> reason, when I tried to arrange the actual transfer, he would not answer
> me back.
>
> Secondly, there is a JTAG interface on the J72x's motherboard somewhere,
> but, again, when I asked HP for a motherboard layout, all I got was
> silence.
>
> So, until these points change, a flashboard for the Jornada 72x is
> pretty much dead.
>
> Regards,
> -Mark Gollahon
>
>
> Marek Pikulski wrote ..
> > Hi,
> >
> > who is 'responsible' for building the flashboards? I found some
> > technical specifications for the flashboards on handhelds.org, but I
> > haven't tried to understand all of them yet. I'm afraid I'm unable to
> > build one myself.
> > What does such a board cost (parts+manufacturing)?
> > Is there someone who wants to sell one? ;)
> >
> > Marek
Received on Mon Feb 28 2005 - 22:57:40 EST