[iPAQ] 3900 series status?

I was curious about what would happen if I tried to put linux on one of
the new 3900 series iPaqs. My reading of the 3950/3970 thread suggests that:

1. The new XScale chip is binary compatible with the older StrongARM
chip and most of the surrounding hardware (chipsets, etc.) hasn't
changed much so it should mostly work, with the caveat that not many
people (if any) have tried this yet so there may be unexpected issues.

2. Just like WinCE is seeing performance issues running on the XScale
without XScale-optimized code, there will be performance issues with
StrongARM-targeted code for linux, but that those issues are being
actively worked on.

Is that right or am I missing something big?

Thank you,

  - Ravi Nanavati
Received on Thu Jul 11 01:04:45 2002