The sad thing is that NetBSD boots up on the HP Jornada 548 and I have 
connected to the serial port and typed commands at the shell prompt, and I 
am even willing to write a video display driver for NetBSD, but I do not run 
NetBSD on my desktop or servers, and really do not plan to for a while.

If someone could give me really simple cross compilation instructions, 
including how to set up the cross compilation environment on FreeBSD, I 
would HAPPILY try getting it working. I am not very familiar with the BSD 
kernel in practice, though I have read a large amount of the book "The 
Design and Implementation of the 4.4BSD Operating System" and understand the 
concepts. I have pretty much just given up at this point of time, and since 
I do not have the $$$ for an iPAQ or anything, I am just sticking with the 
completely and utterly stupid Windows CE operating system. 

Regards, 

Ray 

Brian K. White writes: 

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> From: Raymond W. Lucke IV <netbsd@raylucke.com>
> List: port-sh3
> Date: 07/24/2001 05:43:55 
> 
> To anyone who can help me, 
> 
> I am seriously considering jumping in on helping to port NetBSD to the
> Jornada. I do not currently run NetBSD on any of my machines, and do not
> have any plans to do so for now (except on my Jornada). 
> 
> I have attached below the serial console log for NetBSD booting up on my
> Jornada 548. What is the status of the port for that platform? From what I
> can tell, no one has even really tried, due to the chipset difference. 
> 
> I figure it like this, if it can at least boot, then maybe I could tweak
> with maybe, say, a kernel module instead of dealing with recompiling the
> kernel, copying the kernel in, rebooting, etc. 
> 
> My problem is currently that I do not know how I need to set up my
> development platform. What exactly do I need to do? I am completely new to
> Unix-like kernel development, though I have written my own little
> (ultra-simple) OS in the past, so I am familiar with general kernel coding
> concepts. 
> 
> I am requesting two things,
> 1. Info on exactly what I have to do to get a good development platform.
> Right now, the only machine I have been able to "play with" (eg. install
> different OSes) is stuck running Win98 for ActiveSync and Embedded Visual
> C++. I also have a few FreeBSD servers that my company runs on, so if it is
> possible, I could just compile the kernel out of my home directory.
> 2. Info on ANYTHING anyone knows about the HP Jornada 548's architecture,
> how it is different from the 690's or whatever.. Also, maybe a few pointers
> to some info on the SH3 opcodes, etc. 
> 
> Thanks! 
> 
> Ray
> -------- 
> 
> I am sorry to see you didn't get any response. I too want desperately to run
> linux or bsd on my 548.
> No one seems to be working on it. just a bunch of guys who want it, but
> can't do it.
> I'm getting the feeling that I screwed up buying this thing from my buddy.
> When I got it, the specs were impressive compared to other pda's, but now
> others are better (screen, cpu, ram, size, weight, battery-life) which is
> not such a terrible thing in itself, all hardware always suffers this, but
> now that it's past it's prime and no one has happened to have gotten a linux
> or bsd kernel up & running, I fear now no one ever will either. I know I
> probably wouldn't invest the work if I could do it. I'd work on something
> more current instead. 
> 
> So I guess I'm doomed to run wince untill I can afford to get a new pda. At
> least it turns out that a lot of old dos apps run in a wince dos emulator,
> including an old but just current enough version of my primary
> application/database development tool, filePro. Anything so long as I can
> get un-shackled from &^%# Outlook. 
> 
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