Re: boot problems on jornada 680

["Valeriy E. Ushakov" <uwe%ptc.spbu.ru@localhost>]

On Fri, Oct 11, 2002 at 10:47:30 -0700, Dean wrote:

> > I run -current on my 680, but I do use CF card.  I think when I first
> > tried to boot netbsd on it I booted from root (i.e. from WinCE RAM
> > fs), but I don't remember for sure.
> 
> Thanks.  I'll play around with it a little.  Once I have a CF card
> I'll really be rocking and rolling.
> 
> What kind of support issues should I worry about when looking for a
> CF?  Will any 'ol size card do?  What about pcmcia nic's?  I have an
> IBM EtherJet (that isn't recoginzed by WinCE).

The biggest problem currently is that in-tree gcc cannot generate PIC
code for sh3 (support for PIC for sh3 was introduced only in gcc3).
This means that you can only build a static world, i.e. that you world
will be *big*.  So getting at least a 128M CF is a good idea, and even
then you will need to do some trimming.  I think 256M CF can
accomodate the whole static world.

I successfully use pcmcia modem.  My card is an ether/modem Megahertz
combo, but due to card quirks it doesn't announce itself as a
multifunction card.  The ethernet part has issues, but I'd blame it on
driver problems.  I don't have other pcmcia cards to try, but from
mailing lists I gather that folks successfully use pcmcia nics in
these machines.

SY, Uwe
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