RE: [jornada] pm with jornada720 flashrom

On Fri, 28 Feb 2003, Roy, Sumit wrote:

> Hi,
> some updates:
> 1. we are in the final stage (ie legal approval) to publish
> the Flash ROM specs. The paper work should get submitted
> early next week.

Great!

> 2. we have enough connectors to make 300 more cards. The new
> cards will have 64MB DRAM, and possibly larger Flash memory
> too. It's not been decided on how many cards to make though.

Hooray!!

> We still need to work on some way to do the first bootloader
> installation in a scalable manner ...

Thanks a lot.

cheers,

Andy

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Kye Connect [mailto:kye@pin9.de]
> > Sent: Friday, February 28, 2003 12:33 AM
> > To: jornada@handhelds.org
> > Subject: Re: [jornada] pm with jornada720 flashrom
> >
> >
> > On 2003.02.27 23:34 "Roy, Sumit" wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > there's a couple of problems here. The J7XX line is
> > > an end-of-life product (or end-of-line ?). Finish
> > > what's in the production line, then shut it down.
> > > So there is no `growing' market for the Flash ROMs.
> > > Our best bet is to get a low volume run done (like
> > > Jamey suggested), if one can identify such a
> > > manufacturer.
> > >
> > > Sure we like to push research and innovation (definitely
> > > from the labs perspective), but for a company of this
> > > size, you do need a really large volumes ($100M - $1B)
> > > to get divisional interest.
> > hi,
> > perhaps giving out the design for non commercial and strictly private
> > use would be something hp can consider just because there is no
> > "business case" for them in the design. (this would strength the
> > developer community anyhow giving hp to a later stage the chance to
> > profit from it as an alternative to the microsoft driven line
> > in there
> > products) okok very strategic in this point *grins*
> > but something that do not cost any money and gives good repuation:-)
> >
> > karl
> > ps: after some "little" changes of the sources i have
> > 2.4.19-rmk6-pxa1-hh3 up and running here ... just like allways ... pm
> > do work, pcmcia do not. if someone is interested i would be happy to
> > share my sourcetree. (i am not a programmer but a user so my changes
> > are VERY dirty and for sure not good)
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Received on Sun Mar 02 08:41:38 2003