john-quebbeman@utulsa.edu wrote:
> Hey developers for the 41xx ipaqs. I just received a hp 4150 ipaq and am a linux user. I was looking online for ports for the 4150 and it seems that it's not supported very well yet. I saw the wiki page and that there is a basic boot into 2.6 but not much else. I was just wondering how progress is going. Will I be able to run linux on my 4150 anytime soon? or should i just grin and bear the windowsCE? Thanks a lot and thanks for the development you're doing.
I'm not a developer, but as they all seem to be busy developing (which
is a good thing :-) ) I might as well tell you how far I've gotten:
My 4150 is running kernel 2.6.7. No SD-card support yet, so root is on
my desktop PC via NFS and USB networking. Internal flash (DOC) might
work, there are drivers in the kernel, but haven't tried that yet. I
have successfully set up a gentoo system, including X, but my
touchscreen isn't working yet (but that should be fixed shortly, Eddi
converted the driver for h4000).
So I don't think linux is already usable as a replacement for CE if you
don't want to carry around a laptop for your rootfs or have a really big
initrd that contains your whole system. But there's not that much
missing either. As soon as sd-card support is implemented I try to
completely migrate to linux.
Greetings,
Michael
Received on Tue Aug 3 05:57:20 2004
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