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>>Hi there, I was wondering if any of the smaller ports of NetBSD
>>(hpcmips, hpcarm and friends) allow you to do away with winCE altogether,
>>rather than booting the NetNSD kernel from WinCE?
>
>AFAIK not at the moment.  The Linux people can so it is possible.

in fact, I've come along quite nicely using the linux bootloaders to
boot netbsd. still a few small issues...
>
>>Someone told me the StrongARM ROM was reprogrammable, so couldn't
>>these architectures overwrite wince with NetBSD?
>
>One of the big barriers to doing this is that if you screw up the
>bootstrap loader there is no going back - you have a dead machine
>unless you have some very specialised equipment (a JTAG boundary
>programmer) and are able to do some SMD rework, at least, that is what
>was explained to me a while back.  Given this there is some reluctance
>to doing the development ;-)

well, if you have a jtag interface, you can easily reprogram you flash.
and if you have socketed flash, you can easily reprogram it. but, most of
those development niceities are absent in commercial products.

$.02.

Regards,

Joe Battle
battlej@groove.com