RE: Flashboard for a 720

Adam Pribyl <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.handhelds.linux.jornada
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Mon, 3 Jul 2006, Mark Gollahon wrote:

> Christopher:
>
> Where can I get blob?

There is something on SF
http://sourceforge.net/projects/blob/

>
> Thanks!
> -MarkG
>
> Christopher Hoover wrote ..
>>
>> I ported blob to the '720 some long time ago.  It has full support for
>> programming flashboards (at least of the variety we were building in
>> HPL) and for booting linux.
>>
>> -ch
>>
>> email: ch (--at--) murgatroid (--dot--) com
>> email: ch (--at--) hpl (--dot--) hp (--dot--) com
>>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: [email protected]
>> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Adam Pribyl
>> Sent: Wednesday, June 28, 2006 12:03 AM
>> Cc: [email protected]
>> Subject: Re: [jornada] Flashboard for a 720
>>
>> On Tue, 27 Jun 2006, Martin Lucina wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Having read the various Jornada pages on the handhelds.org site, as I
>>> understand it it is not possible to suspend/resume Linux via the WinCE
>>
>>> bootloader.  Is this a 100% confirmed fact?  Has anyone tried
>>> disassembling the WinCE bootloader, or getting hold of the original HP
>>
>>> engineers who wrote it?
>>
>> I tried disassembly (some other maybe too), but no success - I do not
>> have a really good debugger, I only had a disassembled code, which is
>> not enought.
>>
>> I tried to contact HP engineers, but the WHP2000 is dead for several
>> years and nobody is willing to spend time (=money) on investigating how
>> it was (pretty understandable), also it's maybe some kind of NDA with
>> MS.
>>
>> As of flashbootldr: The guys from HP CRL wrote themselfs the bootldr for
>> flashboards, as experimental project to implement Linux on jornada. As
>> CRL is closed now, I am almost sure there is nobody with time to develop
>> anything for 6 years old device. The only stuff that is available for us
>> is the one on the handhelds.org, which is from mid-canceled linux
>> implementation project. I am glad that the outcome of this project was
>> linux running on J720, but we can hardly expect any more help from HP.
>>
>>>
>>> -mato
>>>
>>
>> Adam Pribyl
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