QNX 6.3.0 on iPaq 3870

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Hi chris,

Now, as my Momentics-PE evaluation license has expired,
do I have any chance to do anything on the eQip myself?
The build doesn’t run anymore as it uses qcc which is depending on a
comercial license.
May be other tools, as mkifs and mkefs are also not working anymore (I
didn’t try yet).

I would like to have a dual boot version to be able to boot eQip from
CF-Card or SD/MM-Card
and leaving PocketPC in the flash.
On 23.1.2003 you answered a correspondin question:

It will be possible to boot from a CF card. However, you will lose
everything you don’t have backed-up onto the CF card under PocketPC.
Basically this means you backup, reboot into QNX, reboot into WinCE
and restore. Unfortunatly, WinCE keeps everything in DRAM and it will
be lost when you go into QNX and you won’t be able to access the
information
in the backup area on the CF disk.

Is there any progress in this plan already?
Or can I do it myself? Even with the expired licence?
Do I have to go back to 6.2.1?

Thanks for your help
Werner

“Chris McKillop” <cdm@qnx.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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I was not able to start the network though.
I’m using a NE2000 compatible card in a Jacket with two CF-card slots.


What is the output of “pin” when you insert the card? It is likely that
the jacket manager doesn’t know your specific jacket type.

chris

–
Chris McKillop <> cdm@qnx.com> > “The faster I go, the behinder I get.”
Software Engineer, QSSL – Lewis Carroll –
http://qnx.wox.org/

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Pack Data:
start: 0xAA
data_length: 104
version: 0x02
vendor_id: 0x0111
product_id: 0x0001
string data: MemplugCF with Batt

So it doesn’t know this pack. We will have to get it added to the
expack server and experiment.

chris

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Chris McKillop <cdm@qnx.com> “The faster I go, the behinder I get.”
Software Engineer, QSSL – Lewis Carroll –
http://qnx.wox.org/

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Is there any progress in this plan already?
Or can I do it myself? Even with the expired licence?
Do I have to go back to 6.2.1?

There isn’t any progress on that front. You could do it yourself but
not with the expired 6.3.0 license.

chris

–
Chris McKillop <cdm@qnx.com> “The faster I go, the behinder I get.”
Software Engineer, QSSL – Lewis Carroll –
http://qnx.wox.org/

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Do you have plans to add this pack?
Or can I do it myself?
Werner

“Chris McKillop” <cdm@qnx.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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Pack Data:
start: 0xAA
data_length: 104
version: 0x02
vendor_id: 0x0111
product_id: 0x0001
string data: MemplugCF with Batt


So it doesn’t know this pack. We will have to get it added to the
expack server and experiment.

chris

\

Chris McKillop <> cdm@qnx.com> > “The faster I go, the behinder I get.”
Software Engineer, QSSL – Lewis Carroll –
http://qnx.wox.org/

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Werner Schweizer <W.Schweizer@swissonline.ch> wrote:

Do you have plans to add this pack?
Or can I do it myself?

If you want to add it, please do. And send me a patch so I can get it
into the eQip project source tree.

chris

–
Chris McKillop <cdm@qnx.com> “The faster I go, the behinder I get.”
Software Engineer, QSSL – Lewis Carroll –
http://qnx.wox.org/

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“Chris McKillop” <cdm@qnx.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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Is there any progress in this plan already?
Or can I do it myself? Even with the expired licence?
Do I have to go back to 6.2.1?


There isn’t any progress on that front. You could do it yourself but
not with the expired 6.3.0 license.

chris

To do it myself, I’m not sure I have enough informations yet.

  • Memory layout of the iPaq
  • At what address is the boot image copied
  • Source code of IPL
  • ???

Werner

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To do it myself, I’m not sure I have enough informations yet.

  • Memory layout of the iPaq
  • At what address is the boot image copied
  • Source code of IPL
  • ???

You don’t need any of that information actually. All you need to do
is add the device types to ipaq-expack’s sources and experiment with the
setup of the device. I suspect it will be exactly the same as the
Compaq unit.

chris

–
Chris McKillop <cdm@qnx.com> “The faster I go, the behinder I get.”
Software Engineer, QSSL – Lewis Carroll –
http://qnx.wox.org/

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“Chris McKillop” <cdm@qnx.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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To do it myself, I’m not sure I have enough informations yet.

  • Memory layout of the iPaq
  • At what address is the boot image copied
  • Source code of IPL
  • ???


    You don’t need any of that information actually. All you need to do
    is add the device types to ipaq-expack’s sources and experiment with the
    setup of the device. I suspect it will be exactly the same as the
    Compaq unit.

chris

Thanks for the additional info for the expack.

But the question here was about dual boot.
I like to leave the WinCE in flash memory and boot eQip from CF-card into
DRAM.
So, as long as there are no PIM-applications for eQip, I can switch form
WinCE to QNX and back.
The only thing I have to do after switch back to WinCE is a restore of the
DRAM from SD-Card.
To do that, I think I will need additional informations.

Werner