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

That is up to HP. They have to make the flash modules available,
and someone has to want to keep the base system port up to date
(not necessarily HP). It isn't likely Compaq will do so, after all...
              - Jim

> Sender: familiar-admin@handhelds.org
> From: Peter Cox <peter@netwxs.com.au>
> Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2001 11:33:45 +1000
> To: "Hicks, Jamey" <Jamey.Hicks@compaq.com>
> Cc: familiar@handhelds.org
> Subject: Re: Any plans for the Jornada? (was Re: [Familiar] 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.
>
>
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Received on Mon Aug 20 07:00:08 2001