[iPAQ] Joining the 2210 porting effort!

Marcus, all,

I'm about to receive the 2210 device that I ordered. It's somewhere in
between the retailer and my home!

Marcus, have you progressed on your plans to port Linux on this device?
I was surprised to read that "no one is currently working on it" on the
Familiar 0.7.2 release notes. Anyway, don't hesitate to share with this
list where you stand.

I would like to join this effort too, and that's why I bought this
device. Here are my motives:

    * I should be a lot of fun and a great learning opportunity doing
      this, all the more as lots of specifications are available from
      the project page (http://www.handhelds.org/projects/h2200.html)
    * This is a very attractive device in terms of features but above
      all in terms of weight and size. It really fits in your pocket! My
      Palm V was very small, but I felt very uncomfortable with its
      proprietary software. I bought an iPAQ 3970 and then got freedom,
      but it felt like going backwards as it was twice as big!
      Similarly, I find the Zauri way too big (except the A300 which
      looks tough to find and has very few expansion capabilities).
    * So, if we succeed, we will at last have the best of both worlds: a
      small, powerful and expandable device running Free Software and
      that's easy to get in a local store! Our work will be useful to
      lots of Free Software enthusiasts.
    * Doing this could could help with the porting of other devices, in
      particular those with NAND flash.

I really have a lot of time to dedicate to this effort in the next
months! By the way, I'm a heavy PDA user, and I will also try to
contribute to the Familiar, Opie and GPE projects.

Marcus' idea to start a 221x Wiki sounds very good to me. Let's do it if
you agree. We could start by gathering information from past posts.

Any new progress status is welcome! (No need to repeat things that were
already shared on this list).

Thanks in advance,

Michael.
Received on Fri Dec 05 2003 - 15:57:11 EST