Re: palm-sized hardware for mobile project

[Robert Swindells <rjs%genrad.co.uk@localhost>]

Brett Lymm wrote:
>According to itojun%iijlab.net@localhost:
>>  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?
>>

>I think that someone was working on a bootloader for the ipaq based on
>the Linux ipaq bootloader.  There are some dangers in rewriting the
>bootloader on the ipaq though.  I believe that other hpc's are a bit
>more awkward because they have the bootloader in ROM.

The iPAQ bootloader supports NetBSD now.

Robert Swindells