Re: Any plans for the Jornada? (was Re: Familiar on Toshiba Genio PocketPC?)

Hicks, Jamey wrote:

>The kernel source code on handhelds.org has support for the Jornada 720, but
>it seems to only run on specially modified Jornada 720's that have Flash
>memory. You could follow the dual-booting instructions to boot Linux from
>WinCE if you built a kernel from source. Check out the latest version of
>the source, (which will check out into linux/kernel).
> cd linux/kernel
> cp arch/arm/def-configs/jornada720 .config
> make oldconfig; make depend; make zImage; make modules
>
>I recommend using the cross-compilation toolchain in
>ftp://ftp.handhelds.org/pub/linux/arm/toolchain/
>
>Jamey
>
Thanks for the info. :-)

We're mainly a Java shop, and familiar seems to be a possible deployment
target for our application on the iPAQ.

I'll raise the Jornada as a possible platform, with your caveat about
"specially modified Jornada 720's", if they were willing to allocate
resources to providing familiar (or some other linux distro) on the device.
Received on Sun Aug 19 2001 - 18:17:27 EDT