RE: [iPAQ] 3900 series status?

Christian, Andrew writes:
> > 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.
>
> Mostly work in the sense that Linux will work. Nicolas Pitre and others
> have been working on Linux support of the Xscale chip. They have most,
> but not all, of the Xscale functionality working (for example, the last
> post I saw from him indicated they were still working on
> suspend/resume).
>

What about the Japanese version of the Zaurus, the SL-A300. It comes
with an Xscale CPU and I am wondering what they have done to the
kernel and if there was any feedback. Or are the open issues only
related to ipaq hardware?

Marcus

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