RE: [jornada] pm with jornada720 flashrom

Hmm,
considering that I `reverse engineered' the
FLASH based boards, I'd really like see the
design made public. Meanwhile, I will lean
a little harder on the powers that be ...

The boards cost us +$100 a piece for the low
volume that we did in the original batch. A
major PIA is that the connectors are typically
sold in quantities of 10,000 (!). FLASH ROMs,
DRAM etc. is not much of a problem in small lots.

Cheers

Sumit

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Sumit Roy, sumit_at_hpl.hp.com
Streaming Media Systems Group
HP Laboratories
http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Sumit_Roy 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jamey Hicks [mailto:jamey.hicks_at_hp.com]
> Sent: Thursday, February 27, 2003 7:58 AM
> To: Jacek Lipkowski
> Cc: jornada_at_handhelds.org
> Subject: Re: [jornada] pm with jornada720 flashrom
> 
> 
> 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
> 
> 
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