#4 Support for the original Psion 5

[Anonymous]

As psion didn't released ER5 for the original Psion, I
want to try linux now.

But it seems that the original Psion isn't supported
anymore by openpsion, too :-(
I tried the kernel for the 5mx, but it did nothig
(probably becuse of the changes memory layout)
I would love to help you porting openpsion to the
series5 (8MB), but I don't know too much about the
internals fro the psion :-(

[Nobody/Anonymous]

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somehow the login didn't work - I'm mifritscher
(michael_a.t_fritscher_d.o.t_net)

[Nobody/Anonymous]

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If somebody can tell me if i can run linux on the series
5, not mx please tell me how i gonna be more than happy

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see
http://www.gwright.org.uk/index.php?page=etux
regards
Adrian

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The Series 5 can be booted into linux (I know, I just did it!). The problem for me was actually finding the files (well, an initrd and kernel image). If you install ARLO (the one on the downloads page for 5MX / netbook) on your S5 you'll be able to boot Linux using ramdisk image http://linux-7110.sourceforge.net/files/People/Klaasjan/initrds/initrds3.gz and kernel http://linux-7110.sourceforge.net/files/People/Klaasjan/kernelbinaries/glued-image-2.2.1-cb26-psionS5-boot15.gz.

You need to uncompress the kernel, but not the ramdisk.

Read the 5MX README page, too, as it has lots of useful info.

Best of luck

JonB

[John Lobaugh]

Hi,

I followed the instructions and managed to get it working using arlo 2.1 and
ramdisk image:
http://linux-7110.sourceforge.net/files/People/Klaasjan/initrds/initrds3.gz
and kernel:
http://linux-7110.sourceforge.net/files/People/Klaasjan/kernelbinaries/glued-image-2.2.1-cb26-psionS5-boot15.gz.

Really cool! Any chance that a precompiled toolchain might be out there so I could develop or compile some simple applications on a modern linux installation and have them run on the psion?