RE: Returned to the Jornada world

If you're going to modernize the flash board - any thought to having the
boards, etc., outsourced?  Maybe get a hundred or two pre-confirmed
orders for them?

If so, and the price isn't too bad - count me in.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] 
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Mark Gollahon
> Sent: Monday, November 06, 2006 2:16 PM
> To: Gregory Nutt
> Cc: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [jornada] 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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