[pbsd-mg2] RE: Warner

["たけむら" <takemura@ca2.so-net.or.jp>]

Hi Warner.
I am Shin Takemura. Nice to meet you.

Unfortunately, I don't read/write in English very well.
But I try to....

I wrote boot loader for MIPS base Windows CE from scratch.
It is unfinished but it works a little.
It reads kernel file from DOS(FAT) file system and jump into
entry address.

I put it's binary executable on URL:
  http://www02.u-page.so-net.ne.jp/ca2/takemura/tmp/pbsdboot.mips.990402.tgz

  - ungip and untar archive to get pbsdboot.exe.
  - copy pbsdboot.exe and kernel to Compact Flash or CE's internal
    RAM area.
  - launch pbsdboot.exe and tap [Boot].
  - If you are lucky, you will see boot messages.

PLEASE do not re-distribute this program because it is incomplete.
And, for now, do not discrose any information about it to any one who
don't subscribe this ML, please.

>> Greetings,
>> I've been working for some time now to get a free OS running
>> on a MIPS based WinCE machine.  I had two NEC MobilePro 400's that I
>> had been using to bring things up with, until an unfortunate accident
>> where both were dropped on concrete, shattering their screens.  I
>> have recently aquired a Everex E-10 with 4M of memory and either
>> a Vr4111 or a Vr4102 in it (depending on which spec sheet I look at).
>> Noriyuki Soda-san suggested that I look into a port of NetBSD to
>> these machines.  I've compiled the kernel that he pointed me at and
>> have written a serial driver for the DEBUG SERIAL INTERFACE UNIT
>> that I found in the Vr4111 docs (I don't have the actual device
>> yet, so I'm filling time).  I have no clue if it works, or even if
>> the dsiu pins are exported to the outside world, but wanted to do
something
>> to familiarize myself with the code.
>> I have also worked on tricking WinCE into loading a foreign OS,
>> as well as converting a very minimal port of gcc to produce PE files
>> on mips to be a working port (this is work in progress) so that I don't
>> have to purchase the MS compilers.
>>
>> I look forward to learning more about your efforts in this area and to
>> contributing to them.
>>
>> Warner
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>takesi
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