RE: Returned to the Jornada world

Tim:

I wouldn't mind outsourcing the board fab and soldering, but I would definitely need a good number of commitments to even consider that course....  From my unofficial/unscientific poll awhile back, I think I only had about 12 takers -- not exactly a resounding success (and not enough to get much of a volume discount).  However, if we can get takers on the HPCFactor.com list <nod to 'Nick L'>, we might have enough takers to make it professional.

Anyway, I'll know more about the pricing once I get the research done and a preliminary design.  I'm still hoping to modernize the board and pack a few "surprises" on it as well, but it really comes down to what chips are available and at what price.

Regards,
-Mark Gollahon


Tim Underwood wrote ..
> 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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