[jornada] Jornada 710/720 Lateral Thinking.

Hello all,

I have long followed the development of linux on the 720, and am glad
that it is working, congratulations to all who have worked on it!

I am one of many who do not have a flashboard (and yes I would like
one!! ;) ).

The purpose of this post is to ask... Rather than struggle to get a
manufacturer for the flashboards, how hard would it be to interface a
gumstix board to the screen and keyboard? Look www.gumstix.com these
boards are literally the size of a stick of gum - we've been using them
for a project at uni. My idea is to replace the 720 internals with one.
They already run linux, their I/O is well documented, it would 'upgrade'
the 720 to a 400Mhz Xscale and increase the ram. You could have
bluetooth, use the gap in the case that has the modem socket as a
network socket with one of their addon boards, add a sound board, and
probably still have room for more! The only trouble would be interfacing
to the keyboard and screen.

What do people think?

Cheers,

Gav.
Received on Thu Mar 31 2005 - 04:43:09 EST