Subject: Re: current jornada 720
To: Todd Vierling <tv@wasabisystems.com>
From: Herb Peyerl <hpeyerl@beer.org>
List: port-hpcarm
Date: 02/26/2002 07:39:06
Todd Vierling <tv@wasabisystems.com> wrote:
> Provided that a reasonable /dev/fb exists for NetBSD/hpc{arm,mips,sh} for
> appropriate machines, a standard linear framebuffer X server should work. I
> think the only thing really `special' to the linux iPAQ X server is the
> special on-screen keyboard functionality, which the 720 doesn't need (of
> course).
>
> Pretty much all these devices have simple mappable linear framebuffers;
> hpcboot contains code to find the fb and make its address/size available to
> NetBSD.
Cool. When will you be finished?
Can you do it by next week? I might be making a trip somewhere and
having X on my Jornada would be really helpful..
Thanks Todd! :-) :-)