Re: Returned to the Jornada world

Howdy, Gregory!  Glad you're back!

About the Jornada Flashboard - I've made a little progress on it, but nothing much to report to the list just yet.  For those inquiring minds, here is where I am:

1) Research more modern RAM and Flash chips to see if any would be a better match than those that were originally used.  If so, finish the schematic capture in Kicad and route a board.

2) Find out if UBoot/RedBoot/whatever bootloader can boot Linux from CF (basically, does the bootloader have support for a PCMCIA bridge?).  The advantage here would be using CF to hold the OS, making the flash process much easier (pop the CF out of the Jornada, pop it into a card reader on a desktop machine, copy a filesys and/or kernel, pop the CF out of the reader and back into the Jornada, ready to go).  If so, go to #1 and finish the schematic capture with smaller Flash chips.

Thoughts??  Answers??

-MarkG


Gregory Nutt wrote ..
> I had unsubscribed for a while so I may have missed out on news.
> 
> A couple questions.
> 
> Any status on the new flashboard for the J720?
> 
> Has anyone successfully crammed a CF microdrive into the CF slot?  If 
> so, how'd you make it fit in the slot?
> 
> Also, I'd finally like to welcome myself to the Linux world on Jornada.
> Although I have been following this forum for some time, I only got GPE
> running last night.  My main troubles were getting a decent CF reader to
> write to my CF without causing errors (and I wasn't really in a hurry to
> do this all this time).
> 
> Greg
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