Re: lots of bootldr progress

Alex,

that's great news!

Am So, den 07.12.2003 schrieb Alex Lange um 21:45:
> Hi,
> 
> I've found lot's of time today to do some stuff for the bootloader.
> PCMCIA stuff is completely done now. It is possible to copy around files, 
> reflash the flash using a cf card (much faster then serial cable) and boot a 
> kernel off a pcmcia card (only vfat partitions supported).

Pretty cool. Is it also possible to boot a kernel via NFS ?

> The simpad can completely be haltet and linuxargs can easily be set. 

Heaven :)

> Usually just two partitions will 
> remain as on the ipaq's, the 256KB bootloader partition and the rest will be 
> root partition.

Ah great. That makes upgrading the kernel a breeze and we no longer have
to put as much in the kernel as possible to save space on the rootfs
partition.

> 
> Unfortunately, still only 16MB of flash memory are found. If we geht the flash 
> going the bootloader can be released (and we need to find a way how to flash 
> the bootloader the first time for people who don't have a jtag interface...).
> 
> get the new version off my site:
> http://handhelds.org/~chicken/simpad-bootldr.tar.bz2

Thanks for your work!

Cheers,
-- 
:M:
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
Dipl.-Inf. Michael 'Mickey' Lauer   [email protected] 
  Raum 10b - ++49 69 798 28358       Fachbereich Informatik und Biologie  
--------------------------------------------------------------------------



-------------------------------------------------------
This SF.net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials.
Become an expert in LINUX or just sharpen your skills.  Sign up for IBM's
Free Linux Tutorials.  Learn everything from the bash shell to sys admin.
Click now! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1278&alloc_id=3371&op=click