Re: Flashboard for a 720
Adam Pribyl <[email protected]>
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On Tue, 27 Jun 2006, FilipŻyźniewski wrote: >> >> 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. > > Why would we want wince survival? I bought a spare ROM board for > experiments. > As usuall, also wince has their usage. To be honest, I use linux only for some specific tasks, and WinCE still does a good job in what they were designed for. >> 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. > > Even dumb one utilizing only first CF slot? The most space-eating thing > would be a PCMCIA init and IDE-cs interface... Do you think that such > bootloader cannot fit in 32kB? Everything fine, but somebody has to write it.:) > How is suspend/resume achieved with HP's flash boards and linux? > Does jornada always start at 0x0 after resume? Maybe we could put a flag > somewhere like "system is in memory, jump -> here to resume it" for a > bootloader? That still not completely clear to me, but it seems yes. Resume is same as start. The problem is same as for previous - coding, and understanding how to wake up kernel on jornada. I am not that sure it is working properly even with flashboard and bootldr. > > What do you think about already mentioned here idea in my other mail > (memory mapped CF on a flashboard)? I never saw anything like that in past, but IMHO the CF is too slow to be used as flash memory (it's IDE). But I could be wrong > bye, > Filip Zyzniewski Adam Pribyl _______________________________________________ jornada mailing list [email protected] https://handhelds.org/mailman/listinfo/jornada