Re: [iPAQ] supported hardware?

From: Jim Gettys <jg.a.t.pa.dec.com>
Date: Tue Aug 08 2000 - 10:52:16 EDT

> Sender: ipaq-admin@handhelds.org
> From: "'Russ Nelson'" <rn-handhelds@crynwr.com>
> Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2000 10:10:38 -0400 (EDT)
> To: ipaq@handhelds.org
> Subject: [iPAQ] supported hardware?
> -----
> I'm trying to find out what hardware is supported in the v0.11
> release. Specifically:
>
> 1) The light sensor

Haven't played with it (yet).

> 2) USB

Charlie is working on the USB... Feel free to give him a hand.

> 3) The 10 switches (record, power, calendar, contacts, Q, menu, plus 4
> directions).

Those are all mapped in the X server, though I'll be adding some shifted
keysyms soon.

> 4) power control of various subsystems

Not doing much yet: some do things when you turn them on and off.
For example, the audio subsystem is turned on when you open the device,
and off when you close it.

>
> Not being one to ask others to do my work for me, I went looking for
> the kernel source for v0.11/zImage-2.4.0-test5-rmk2-np1-hh1. Can't
> find it. There's no test5 in the rmk mirror. The closest I can come
> is linux/arm/sa-1100-patches/diff-2.4.0-test5-rmk1-np1.gz.
>

I believe it is in v0.12: but I dunno if George has sent out a release
announcement. We're still getting some wrinkles moved out of the shift
over to cramfs, that is in v0.12.
                                - Jim

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Jim Gettys
Technology and Corporate Development
Compaq Computer Corporation
jg@pa.dec.com
Received on Tue Aug 8 07:49:36 2000

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