Subject: Re: Port to arm7100 based PDA?
To: David Brownlee <abs@anim.dreamworks.com>
From: Neil A. Carson <neil@causality.com>
List: port-arm32
Date: 05/10/1998 14:19:28
David Brownlee wrote:
> How feasible would a port to an arm7100 based PDA (such as the
> psion 5 or geofox1 ) be?
> Given the arm mmu, 4-16MB ram, keyboard, workable display, serial
> ports, plus optional up to 30MB memory disk and pcmcia slots.
> If anyone had the time and ability I could be interested in buying
> a machine for them for the port :)
How would you bootload the thing: Does the GeoFox have some sort of
device driver interface? Chatting to a guy who aws going to do a Linux
port to the machines... Certainly with the Psion it was possible to buy
an EPOC32 developers kit from Psion and then do a device driver to start
booting stuff, because they run in SVC mode. Is this possible with the
Geofox too?
Other than this issue I guess it's feasible given time.