Thanks, Jim.
I'm pretty sure there are Board Support Packages (BSPs) for Geode-
based platforms in Platform Builder (the app used to ship Win CE).
The slightly different question is not that they get a BSP for a
generic Geode board but if they have put together a BSP for the
particular dev boards that match the product design (include the
particular wireless chip and all the other support chips with any) so
they can fully support the whole hardware platform.
Of course then they are only halfway (or less) to the goal. To put
the higher level OS software (the mesh networking comes to mind) will
take effort. Then the applications on top of that would be even more
expensive in work time. I suspect this would cause their platform to
deviate significantly from the Linux-based $100 laptop.
BTW, I used to work on the QA for Platform Builder for the first
three versions from 1999 to 2002 when I was at Microsoft. But I can't
say I'm (or was) a big fan of Microsoft :-)
On Apr 5, 2006, at 8:15 PM, Jim Gettys wrote:
On Wed, 2006-04-05 at 22:21 -0400, Tim Flavin wrote:
He did say it. He also said that they will/did Geode prototype
boards
so that they could bring up Win CE. My guess is this is part of the
"let the customer decide what software to ship" idea. I didn't get
the impression that significant numbers of $100 laptops would ship
with Win CE.
Yes, there are existing Geode boards made by AMD and other vendors
that
Microsoft can work on today.
If and when Microsoft ask us for development boards, and we have
them to
distribute (power on is a couple weeks out for the first board), we'll
send them some of our boards. It is entirely possible Microsoft have
already asked Nicholas for our boards; I don't know off hand if
this has
occurred or not.
Regards,
- Jim
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