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Date:      Tue, 24 Jul 2001 21:05:44 -0600
From:      Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org>
To:        obrien@FreeBSD.ORG
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-arm@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD for ARM processor 
Message-ID:  <200107250305.f6P35io03390@harmony.village.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 24 Jul 2001 19:59:41 PDT." <20010724195941.E5825@dragon.nuxi.com> 
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In message <20010724195941.E5825@dragon.nuxi.com> "David O'Brien" writes:
: The Compaq iPaq comes to mind.  However, it is not development-friendly
: at the moment as it does not have peripherals such as built-in NIC, hard
: drive, or serial console capabilities.

I thought it did have a serial port...  All of the PocketPC machines
I've looked at do, but I haven't looked that close at the iPaq.  All
of them have some funky connector for their serial port, but that
comes with the units.

However, the iPaq is a little hard to develop on...

There are a number of other StrongARM based Windows CE machines that
would make a much better platform.  They even have NetBSD/hpcarm on
them, which would allow one to host the FreeSBD development on them if
you really wanted to do so.  The HP Journada is likely the best known
of this series and the NetBSD folks have already figured out all the
hair for things like boot loader and the like.

Failing that, the DNARD certainly is a cool machine and might make a
good reference platform.

Warner

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