Re: palm-sized hardware for mobile project

[blymn%baesystems.com.au@localhost (Brett Lymn)]

According to itojun%iijlab.net@localhost:
>
>       is it possible for you to talk with vendors, or is it purely software
>       project on existing hardware?
>

For people that did not know about it:

<http://www.handhelds.org/>

Provides a lot of information about handhelds.  Particularly, the
Compaq ipaq's are well documented on the site.  There used to be a
person called Edwin Foo in Compaq that was very helpful but apparently
he has moved on.  I did contact one of the other Compaq guys that was
active on the handhelds site (Jamie I think it was) who nicely pointed
me at the documentation on handhelds.

>  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.

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