[U-Boot-Users] booting WindowsCE with u-boot

[Wolfgang Denk]

Dear Andrea,

in message <00d401c495a7$ee6a56c0$180aa8c0 at llandrews> you wrote:
> 
> We are currently using u-boot as bootloader for all out Linux embedded
> platforms but we need to support WindowsCE 4.2 too on our upcoming
> ARM920T-based board (at the moment it's running Linux-2.6.x only with

I'm tempted to say that Win* is officially unsupported by U-Boot  ;-)

> Running WinCE is preatty dumb: just load the (huge....) binary image
> somewhere and jmp to a specific location. No parameters to pass to the

Well, then just use the "go" command.

> kernel (at least no one reported officially by microsoft docs or by the
> WinCE newsgroup): everything must be stored in the image (in the registry
> binary file) or customized by the OEM.

I know why I never used any sort of Windoze system.

> But, of course, before proceeding with my "custom" WinCE support I want to
> do know what the u-boot comunity think about my ideas..
> Any suggestion or any advice?

Sorry, I cannot help you with that. Eeeks...

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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