Re: palm-sized hardware for mobile project

[Antti Kantee <pooka%iki.fi@localhost>]

On Tue Aug 21 2001 at 08:02:26 +0900, itojun%iijlab.net@localhost wrote:
> >I may be getting involved in developing a mobile application for a
> >fairly visible place in Finland. The specs on the project are very
> >loose, so basically the hardware/technology is under my discretion.
> >Naturally I'd like to use NetBSD, not only because of the publicity
> >value, but also because I don't want to use WinCE ;)
> 
>       is it possible for you to talk with vendors, or is it purely software
>       project on existing hardware?  if the former, you may want to build
>       a special NetBSD bootloader (which does not rely on WinCE) and then
>       put that onto flashmemory of the device, replacing WinCE.  does it
>       sound possible?

Not really, this is something that should be put together from existing
building blocks as much as possible. I have a pretty clear view of what
type of blocks I'll be using, now I'm just trying to figure out if they
exist ;)

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