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RE: [iPAQ] Restore CE (or bootldr) from Redboot?
- From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2 at infradead dot org>
- To: "Hicks, Jamey" <Jamey dot Hicks at compaq dot com>
- Cc: 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, 7 Feb 2002 17:56:55 +1000 (EST)
- Subject: [ECOS] RE: [iPAQ] Restore CE (or bootldr) from Redboot?
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 would probably be useful to make RedBoot capable of starting WinCE
too, like the bootldr can now do.
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dwmw2