[linuxsh-dev] Re: [linux-sh:01771] Re: Jornada

[Brian K. W. <br...@al...>]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark W. Alexander" <sl...@do...>
To: "Joseph A. Knapka" <jk...@ea...>
Cc: "Brian K. White" <br...@al...>; <lin...@m1...>;
<lin...@li...>
Sent: Saturday, July 07, 2001 3:51 PM
Subject: [linux-sh:01771] Re: Jornada


> On Fri, 6 Jul 2001, Joseph A. Knapka wrote:
>
> >
> > Wow, really? I contacted HP about my Jornada 430 about nine months
> > ago and they basically said, "Fuggeddaboudit." If Mr. Perens can get
> > us hardware documentation for these beasties, progress can be made!
> >
> > Incidentally, re. the display issue, the display controller on
> > the J430 is off the shelf, and data about it is available.
> > The sticky part with the 430 is that there's at least one proprietary
> > HP chip for which I have not found any documentation. It's
> > labelled "112585 9904KU203". Not sure if the 5xx series are
> > similar.
>
> I specifically asked him if I could call on him for hardware
> questions. He's obviously _not_ the person to answer, but he _could_ be
> the person to find the person to answer. I'll confess here and now
> that, so far, I'm too ignorant to ask an intelligent question about
> these little beasties. I'm still trying to figure out how they fit a
> whole computer into a single room;)
>
> If someone can re-phrase "What the heck is IN the 548, anyway?" into a
> set of sensible questions, I'd be happy to forward them on and see
> what comes back.
>
> Mark
>
>

gahh this sucks!

I'm going on a trip which is at least 1/2 recreation, where a good portion
of the other people I'll be hanging out with will be out-geeking each other
and I've already stuck a "Linux Inside" sticker on my Jornada, which would
have secured my title this trip. :)

now I'd better peel it off. Hmm, or I could just stick the kernel and root
fs on there... so what if it doesn't load...

I could not figure out how to even try out the 320x240 kernel with ldd
I can't find any text anywhere
my best guess is I think I remember seeing about one sentence somewhere that
suggested you create an ext2 filesystem on and popuplate a cf card with the
usual stuff, including a kernel and some programs, by using a cf card
adapter on a regular linux box. For me, I'm guessing that means I sould get
a cf<->pcmcia adapter for my laptop, which has mandrake 8.0 and kernel 2.4.5
on one partition and the Win2Kpro with the WinCE ActiveSync utility on
another partition.

too bad... this thing looks like it could really wipe the floor with the
Agenda.
I hope someone works it out before the thing becomes *too* obsolete. It's
already lost a lot of it's shine to the compaq's and casiopea's that have
similar ram and cpu specs, but with better screens (reflective screens that
work outdoors and other bright light)

I can't help get the initial core work of getting a kernel to run and mount
a fylesystem and control the hardware, but I'd be more than ready, willing,
and able to compile apps and maintain a distribution and write up a "how-to
run linux on your Jornada"

It looks like that debian page goes a long way towards this already.

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