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Re: RE: [iPAQ] Restore CE (or bootldr) from Redboot?
- From: Jonathan Larmour <jlarmour at redhat dot com>
- To: David Woodhouse <dwmw2 at infradead dot org>
- Cc: "Hicks, Jamey" <Jamey dot Hicks at compaq dot com>,Gary Thomas <gthomas at redhat dot com>,"Noel J. Bergman" <noel at devtech dot com>, ipaq at handhelds dot org,eCos Discussion <ecos-discuss at sources dot redhat dot com>,George Saj <gsaj at acm dot org>
- Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2002 18:20:23 +0000
- Subject: Re: [ECOS] RE: [iPAQ] Restore CE (or bootldr) from Redboot?
- Organization: Red Hat UK Ltd.
- References: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0202071754400.12071-100000@lapdancer.baythorne.internal>
David Woodhouse wrote:
>
> On Tue, 5 Feb 2002, Hicks, Jamey wrote:
>
> > I agree with this as well, but many of the people who try out Linux on
> > the iPAQ do not spend the extra money on a sleeve and cards. If they
> > did, they might be less inclined to reinstall WinCE. It's a good
> > argument for putting USB support into redboot and/or bootldr.
>
> eCos has USB support on this platform. _Theoretically_ it should have a
> good chance of working in RedBoot. I don't think anyone's ever tried it
> though.
It definitely needs work to get running. The existing code relies on
interrupts, whereas RedBoot deliberately runs with interrupts disabled.
Jifl
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