Re: palm-sized hardware for mobile project

[Devin Butterfield <dbutter%wireless.net@localhost>]

On Tuesday 21 August 2001  3:13, Robert Swindells wrote:
> 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.

Can you comment on NetBSD's current usefulness on the iPAQ? In other words, 
could I run X on it (like the linux folks are doing)? Or is it still in a 
very early stage of development?
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Regards, Devin.