Re: Flashboard for a 720

Adam Pribyl <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.handhelds.linux.jornada
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Fri, 23 Jun 2006, Filip Zyzniewski wrote:

> How about using tiny 32kB flash just for a bootloader capable of loading
> second stage bootloader from a CF card?

This is interesting option. In first 32k of ROM now resides the WinCE 
boot/resuume loader. I do not think wince will survive replacing this 
part. Moreover - we do not have suitable bootloader for linux to boot from 
CF. I've read something bootldr maybe can boot from CF, but its size is 
more than 200kB. Also, if we make a flash to J720, then the main reason 
should be to have suspend/resume working. Otherwise it makes not much 
sense, as wince is also a kind of semiinteligent linux loader.


BTW: the boards in J720 are pretty fragile, with lot of layers in very 
thin PCB.

> What do you think?
>
> bye,
> Filip
>

Adam Pribyl
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