Re: Re: Linux on IPAQ 214 (PXA310)

Oliver Ford pisze:
> e m wrote:
>> Hi!
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>> 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
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> 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
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> I will post the details of this, as well as some questions on my
> original thread a little later on.
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> Nice to see some other interest in this, do you have a 214?
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> Oliver
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Hi!

Thanks for the link to the arm-kernel thread and all the info. Yes, I
too have a 214, and would like to learn a little bit about embedded
linux, when I have some time...
Good luck!

Vega
Received on Thu Mar 13 2008 - 03:26:10 EST