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LinuxPDA EPOCH 32?

Posted by Cliff on from the new-member-of-the-family? dept.

mindscream writes "I am starting a project to port Linux to the EPOCH 32 architecure which is what PSIONs amungst others use. I need information about what Linux needs to know from the boot loader and what it would usually need from the BIOS, or if you know a reason why what I intend to do is impossible please add your comment! There should be some info on my web site soon, ALSO I am looking for others who would like to help even if you only would like to beta test drop me a line! "

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  1. I need help porting Linux, too. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5

    I am starting a project to port Linux to the Intel Pentium architecure which is what DELLs and GATEWAYs amungst others use.

    I haven't done any research on the subject so far and am also ignorant if it has been done already, but never mind.

    I need information about what Linux needs to know from the serial mouse and what it would usually need from the keyboard, or if you know a reason why what I intend to do is impossible please add your comment!

  2. Linux 7K Project already exists by 198348726583297634 · · Score: 5
    http://www.calcaria.net/

    The Calcaria Linux project already boots linux on the psion series 5. I'd have tested it, but I'm lazy. ;) Also, I can't quite understand the use of linux on this device. The Epoc32 operating system already interfaces with the touch screen, which Linux doesn't (yet.) Epoc32 has a lot of very useful apps built in, that the Linux command-line would have trouble replacing... and I hardly see the advantage of running Linux /and/ and X server on the palmtop, just to replace the word processor that Epoc already provided in the rom. The file management is well-enough thought out that you don't need to do anything through the command line (no, not that linux console is only command-line-based, but that midnight commander won't do a better job than epoc's file manager.)

    The one advantage of Linux that I can see is the interfacing. if you were running linux on the palmtop and on the desktop, you could do nfs over the serial port for easy backups and access to data like that *snaps fingers*

    In fact, that's the one thing I regret about the psion- it doesn't have any easy way to access the gigs of data I have on my hard drive. Granted, I've got desktop apps for that, but it'd be /kinda/ cool to have the interoperability in both directions :)

    anyway, sorry for the rant...