Subject: Re: palm-sized hardware for mobile project
To: rjs@fdy2.demon.co.uk, Robert Swindells <rjs@genrad.co.uk>
From: Devin Butterfield <dbutter@wireless.net>
List: port-hpcarm
Date: 08/21/2001 03:24:04
On Tuesday 21 August 2001  3:13, Robert Swindells wrote:
> Brett Lymm wrote:
> >According to itojun@iijlab.net:
> >>  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?
--
Regards, Devin.