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Old 05-13-07, 05:07 AM   #10 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by aximbigfan View Post
you just cant. ok.

alot of the people who start these threads know little more about computers then the fact that you can spam message boards with them.

you cant "hack" the wm6 rom for the axim.

i am a very experienced programmer with more then 12 langs. under my belt. i have extensive experience with embedded computers (ppcs, nas boxes, routers, that sort of thing).

i am currently developing custom firmware for hte hp mediavault (an embedded nas box based off of the broadcom broadnas BCM4785) and i can tell you it is more then a "small favor" to port/recreate an firmware image. i have spent literally hundreds of hours trying to find workarounds for moduals in the soure tree that haven't been gpl'ed (they apper as executables in the tree). and this is talkign about little bits of code here and there that are closed source. the popel who want to mod a wm6 image to work on an x5XX are talking about modding a COMPLETELY closed source image.

so, unless you want to...
+shell out thousands of dollars on a wm6 devel kit
+spend hundreds of hours _trying_ to mod a image to work on a device that wasnt intended to use it
+brick your device a few hundred times over

you aren't going to get anywhere.
and the funny thing is, you wont get anywhere anyway. the x5XX was not intended ot have the wm6 image installed on it in the first place.


im also tired of idoits posting about how it would be "easy" to get a full installation of windows xp to run on the x5XX.

both arent possible.

so, lets recap.

unless you...
+have extensive experience working with the internals of embedded computers
+know at least 12 programming langs
+have developed at least one firmware image

then dont even bother tryign to argue with me.
</rant>

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