[jornada] Jornada 820

Dear Jornada linuxers,

I will get my 820 on wednesday, and I intend to beef its memory and storage
so as to install Linux on it. [*]

I found a supplier of F1267A memory on the web (though
their server's /tmp is full, so you can't actually purchase).
Does 32MB of RAM instead of 16 make a noticeable difference?

How much memory (CF card or otherwise) must I purchase for Linux?
I think I'll go for a 256MB card, or maybe a 1GB microdrive?
How much do such things affect the autonomy of a machine?

As for people having trouble booting from Windows CE 2.11,
it looks like the HP site has an upgrade for the 820 to CE 3.01.
Would it help?

I assume there will be some kernel hacking involved.
Where should I begin from?

And where are docs to become an ARM guru?
I intend to write a native-code compiler for a LISP dialect,
and have been warned about particular cache coherency issues
that the kernel usually manages for C programs, but that I'd
have to deal with if dynamically generating code from userland;
where are the docs about that?

[*] Hey, the first computer I owned was a 486dx33 laptop with 640x480
16-greylevel screen, 16MB RAM and a 240MB HD, and ran Linux 0.99.15.
It looks like the Jornada is more an equal of slightly better computer
in all respects -- plus at the time, I craved for an ARM-based computer.
Weird how I get the toys I want, just ten years later (I also have one
of those 1991 LISP Machines).

Yours freely,

[ François-René ÐVB Rideau | Reflection&Cybernethics | http://fare.tunes.org ]
[ TUNES project for a Free Reflective Computing System | http://tunes.org ]
Those who do not understand LISP are condemned to not even being able
to reinvent it poorly. -- Faré, without apologies to Henry Spencer.
Received on Mon Apr 22 2002 - 22:42:06 EDT