LOOX700Series

Linux on the Fujitsu-Siemens Pocket Loox 700 series

Latest News

[16.08.2008] 2.6.26 kernel is here
[01.10.2007] Installation HOWTO online
[29.09.2007] Linux on Loox forum set up Undcon
[29.09.2007] New file packages available, thanx Jan
[25.07.2007] Created project status page
[24.07.2007] Thanks to Jan Rinze, we've got now working, functional and very useful USB Host Controller
[18.07.2007] Thanks to Piotr Czechowicz, the porting effort is still alive. Check his latest screenshot
[15.05.2006] We have mailing list on handhelds.org finally.
[10.05.2006] Touchscreen driver compiles and partially works?
[10.05.2006] Linux on LOOX Forum on firstloox.org
[09.05.2006] Created wiki pages

For more detailed and older news see: Loox700SeriesNews

Summary

This Wiki is a whiteboard for the project to run Linux on the Fujitsu-Siemens Pocket Loox 700 series PDAs. This is a port in progress.

The port is based on the 2.6 Linux kernel. The starters kit uses the Familiar environment from Handhelds.org. The latest kernel is located in our SVN repository (For details read: Kernel)

See also the How to port Linux to a new PDA presentation for an overview of the porting process.

Introduction

We use these Wiki pages to consolidate all the knowledge that we have on this device and the progress of this project. It's much more convenient than having to scan mail archives!

Everyone is welcome to participate by adding or correcting information. You can even add new sections. Of course,everyone also accepts that his or her contributions can be corrected, improved or even removed (when they are no longer accurate or relevant). Of course, whenever you add new information, don't forget to add information in Project News so it's easier to spot a changes.

General

Hardware

Kernel Compilation

Rolling your own

The porting effort

People involved

(Alphabetical order)

Piotr Czechowicz (Poland)
Ronald Claveau (France)
Tomasz Figa (Poland)
IF YOU ARE INVOLVED INTO THIS PROJECT PLEASE ADD YOURSELF INTO THIS LIST TO SHOW PEOPLE THAT THIS PROJECT IS NOT DEAD!

Achievements

Managed to open the device and took pictures
First Linux boot 2.6.16-hh0 directly into Opie. Access to the busybox command line through a serial console.
USB networking
Working 2.6.21-hh14 kernel
Keys are now functional
LEDs are working
Booting without initrd from partition on SD Card
USB Host Controller is working
Bluetooth (BRF6150)
WiFi (ACX100)
Backlight control
Vanilla 2.6.26 kernel support
Feel free to add more...

ToDo

Functional:

get TS working
get the new ACX100 (mac80211 based) working
get audio working
get camera interface working (Jan Rinze's favorite one)

Code clean-up:
clean up LEDs code and make a generic led emulation layer
start using gpiolib
clean up dead code
check proper GPL headers and author lines

Future targets:
wince bootloader as a first stage bootloader
u-boot as a second stage bootloader
Linux kernel and rootfs in the flash memory

Support

mailing list (preferred)
Topic Linux on LOOX720 on firstloox.org:

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