Re: BSD on iPAQ?

From: Robert Swindells <rjs.a.t.fdy2.demon.co.uk>
Date: Thu Sep 28 2000 - 05:26:16 EDT

>I'll soon receive a serial cable, thanks to Jim Gettys, and I'd like to
>contribute to getting NetBSD running on the iPAQ. I now have two
>StrongARM systems that I would like to run it on: the iPAQ and one of
>the early Netwinder DSs.

Good. The Netwinder should be the easier system to bring up.

>I understand that a lot of the code is similar to other StrongARM
>systems, in the arm32 tree. The work is in the device-dependencies,
>of course, and the boot code. Can someone point me toward how I
>can help in the effort that is ongoing, or point me to resources to
>get started?

You are going to need a NetBSD system in order to run a cross compiler.

There is a toolchain for NetBSD/i386 on ftp.handhelds.org, but I don't
know if anyone is using it.

I guess it would be a good idea to put the diffs in the netbsd area
on ftp.handhelds.org too. I can send them to you anyway.

I have been working mainly on the bootloader over the last week,
as I need it before I can start debugging the kernel.

Robert
Received on Thu Sep 28 02:25:45 2000

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