Subject: Re: palm-sized hardware for mobile project
To: None <blymn@baesystems.com.au>
From: Robert Swindells <rjs@genrad.co.uk>
List: port-hpcmips
Date: 08/21/2001 11:13:20
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.

Robert Swindells