* Brett Lymn <blymn@baesystems.com.au> [010731 06:56]:
> According to Rasputin:
> >
> >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.
> 
> >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 ;-)

Ah, I had some wierd notion of lazily reading the WinCE ROM 
image up a serial port to disk, then writing it back later.

But even if that were possible I expect the M$ legal ninjas
would be on you like stink on a monkey...

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