Okay, I went and checked this out.  Seems that this pbsdboot is for mips?
Any idea if someone got it to compile for SH3?  I forgot to mention that in
my original post.  If not, have you sucessfully compiled this?  Does it
require VC++ or the PocketPC SDK add-on?

Thanks,
--
Brandon Knitter
knitterb@blandsite.org

----- Original Message -----
From: "Pavel Machek" <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: "Brandon Knitter" <knitterb@blandsite.org>
Cc: <port-sh3@netbsd.org>; <port-hpcmips@netbsd.org>
Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2002 8:48 AM
Subject: Re: Maintainers of hpcboot project?


> Hi!
> > I'm not sure whom maintains the HPCBoot project, but I was hoping to
have a
> > discussion regarding the modification of the boot process to work on
Windows
> > CE 2.0 and earlier.  As you may know, in WinCE 2.11 and later, there is
a
> > system call of setKMode which is used to boot the kernel for many boot
> > loaders.  I recently found some code snippets which suggest that a
certain
> > amount of assembly code and kernel binary copying to memory could be
> > executed in such a way that it would boot a kernel on earlier version of
> > WinCE (1.0 and 2.0).
> >
> > I am not a solid C or C++ programmer, nor familiar with writing
applications
> > for WinCE, but I have done enough to read through the code and it seems
as
> > though it's a viable alternative when working with older versions of the
OS.
> > I know that setKMode is a much more stable alternative, but it leaves
some
> > of us out in the cold with earlier versions of the OS and these devices
we'd
> > much rather see running a flavor of Linux.
> >
> > Any help or response would be appreciated.  If you have an earlier
version
> > of WinCE (1.0 or 2.0) and have successfully booted a flavor of unix on
them,
> > I would love to hear from you as well.
>
> pbsdboot works for me on philips velo 1 with "ce 2.0 upgrade"
> board. I'm booting linux on it. (See
> http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/... you should find it ;)
> Pavel
> --
> (about SSSCA) "I don't say this lightly.  However, I really think that the
U.S.
> no longer is classifiable as a democracy, but rather as a
plutocracy." --hpa
>
>