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[Da_Blitz]

intresting things have been happening latley with freescale, in 30 days (i i remeber correctly) they get sold to new owners, what this means i dont really know as i havent looked at the proposed plans if any are even avalible

anyway there was a new product on the market that was simmilar to what i had in mind in terms of casing, its a pxa270 chip (xscale) but it has wifi, bluetooth, keyboard and more.

some notable features (read must have) are:
ethernet
128MB of ram
8 hour batter life
20GB drive
USB host (most likly full speed)

remeber i am mainly designing this as a portable office and have recently been eyeing the flybook and lifebook after seeing them in person however this device seems to fill 90% of what i was planning to chuck in there, the only things missing seem to be video out and a video card

anyway links:
http://www.slashgear.com/more-details-on-t...reen-201720.php
http://www.seamlessinternet.com/s-xgen/specs.html
http://www.slashgear.com/s-xgen-umpc-field...oard-141644.php

[Ragnorok]

- Sorry for the term confusion. So this will put uboot at the CPU reset vector, which will make sure basic hardware is functional, then pass off to kexec to load the kernel of choice. Once that's done the kernel modules initialize the rest of the hardware. I'm intentionally not including where OS copies, etc are taking place. I presume once I learn enough about uboot and kexec things like this will be obvious.

- Having finally loaded a version of pdaXrom that's stable enough for my tastes (I knew they'd get that right eventually) I have to say it would be an excellent candidate for an operating system. I think it already uses uboot as well.

- The "spare" Linux boxen have taken a back seat since the move, so I don't have my development workstation set up yet. When I do I'm going to download Meanie's code for pdaXii13 Akita, since that's what I'm running on Hiro right now, and get that to build. I can play with uboot and kexec from there. Even if pdaXrom isn't using those tools, I should be able to vet the boot sequence to use them. It'll be a good learning experience.