Re: Re: Linux on IPAQ 214 (PXA310)

On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 5:01 PM, Oliver Ford <oliford_at_oliford.co.uk> wrote:
> e m wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > I'm interested in your advance in porting linux to iPAQ 214, so please
> > keep on informing us on this list! I would like to help, but my
> > knowledge is probably too small. Anyway, good luck!
> >
> > Vega
>
>
> Ok, I will try to put the haret relevant things on here as well as a
> general update when I have time. I'm discussing the more detailed things
> on the arm kernel list here:
> http://lists.arm.linux.org.uk/lurker/thread/20080312.024921.d72cfbda.en.html
>
> At the moment I'm starting to realise this make take quite some time,
> but I'll stick at it in and around my proper work.
>
> I have discovered the PXA310's MFP (Multi-function pin) configuration
> system, worked out what it does from the linux kernel sources and have
> discovered the iPAQ 214's GPIOs are all in different places to the
> Zylonite eval board that I was using as my starting point. This is just
> going to take a while of trying to figure out where everything is.

It would be seriously cool if you could add PXA3xx MFP support to
haret as you go.

> I was also having some difficulty with the weird memory map that the 214
> seems to have. I have figured most of that out now, though it's going to
> require some odd modifications of haret to deal with properly and at the
> moment I cant find a way around booting the kernel partly from video
> ram. Doesn't stop the kernel booting, but means you can't read the haret
> preloader output, which is annoying for CRC checking etc.
>
> I will post the details of this, as well as some questions on my
> original thread a little later on.
>
> Nice to see some other interest in this, do you have a 214?
>
> Oliver
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