Eten G500
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Port status
The Eten G500 is registered as the Linux ARM machine type 1178. It is pretty close to be usable as a PDA but lacks proper power management.Suspend/resume works but the battery gets discharged after 8 hours (some devices are not put into suspend mode).
Status: 21 February 2007
This table is also our TODO list.| Component | Status | Comments |
| booting/HaRET | Working | HaRET 0.5.2, replacing the bootloader seems out of reach without JTAG |
| LCD screen | Working | backlight control ok |
| Touchscreen | Working | ok |
| USB | Working | ok, used as network gadget |
| SD/MMC | Working | rusing a modified s3c2410mci driver from h1940. write operation is not clear (polling IO) but works. Potential race condition with DMA read. |
| Power management | Partially |
suspend/resume seems to work but after 8hours the battery get completely discharged  Some components are not turned off |
| Charge battery | yes | GPG0 and GPG1 give status, TODO put that in a driver |
| Buttons | Partially | some of them are used through GPIOs but not all |
| Sound | Working, with some minor problems | only headphone, mixer settings for the speaker are not completely known |
| Camera | Not working | examples from samsumg, spec available, no special work in progress |
| Bluetooth | Not working | on the first UART, BCSP protocol (?), hciattach timeout, sometime success but not usable. |
| Nand | Partially | reading seems ok, but there are a lot of messages at boot time |
| GPS | Usable | on the third UART, plain NMEA data, need to be turned on before to boot linux, TODO : find how to turn it on from linux |
| GSM | Preliminary | on the second UART, 115200 8N1, needs init from wince, can read bytes |
| FM tuner | Not working | it seems that it is not on the i2c bus |
| Flash | No use | Could probably work but no use currently |
TODO
Devices powerup/powerdown.Investigation on bluetooth, GSM and GPS : they are plugged on UART. Bytes can be read but work has to be done on the serial port configuration, as well as protocol study. GSM is multiplexed.
See how to activate the speaker.
Clean up the s3c2440mci driver, make it work safely.
Improve suspend/resume.
