Re: [jornada] pm with jornada720 flashrom

From: Jamey Hicks <jamey.hicks_at_hp.com>
Date: 27 Feb 2003 10:58:22 -0500

On Thu, 2003-02-27 at 10:28, Jacek Lipkowski wrote:
> On Fri, 21 Feb 2003, Jamey Hicks wrote:
>
> > In response to the plea for flashroms, I think we could release the
> > design to someone who wanted to fabricate the flash modules.
>
> could HP make the design publicly avaliable? (not only to "interested
> parties").

What I meant by my comment above was to make the design publicly
available. We're working on getting it cleared for publication now.

>
> btw. whats keeping HP from just making these boards and selling them?

It's too low volume. However, I think that there are companies that
specialize in this kind of thing.

> - judging from the amount of hits that my page regarding booting linux on
> the jornada (around 4000) there is alot of people desperate enough to boot
> linux via hpcboot - so probably at least a few hundred would buy the
> board. ask Peter how many people downloaded his images.

I would like to get the jornada720 supported on handhelds.org under
Familiar, even including hpcboot, but I do not have time to work on
this. I think it would be best to discuss this further on
irc.freenode.net #handhelds.org when nelson and I are around.

-Jamey
Received on Thu Feb 27 2003 - 16:08:02 EST

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