call to developers

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As i look around in different fora and different websites, i notice that a lot of people are trying to reverse engineer various devices (htc's universal, blueangel, typhoon and the various ipaqs, dells) in order to port linux on them.

That is a great idea and the dedication that is displayed by those people is humbling.

I would like to meet people with knowledge and share my knowledge with them.

Specificaly i want to run linux (or QNX, much better suited at embedded devices and devices with very limited resources in particular) on my HTC wizard. However, i believe that we are better of if we try something else: Write a suite of programs that is Generic in its way of handling the various architectures. That would help, by grouping together the various projects that have started, to collate the knowledge accumulated by all those people.

George Tsiros

Re: call to developers

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Originally Posted by tsiros

QNX, much better suited at embedded devices and devices with very limited resources in particular

The HTC wince phones are hardly limited in their
resources

Write a suite of programs that is Generic in its way of handling the various architectures. That would help, by grouping together the various projects that have started, to collate the knowledge accumulated by all those people.

On the kernel level the PXA based phones (Himalaya,Blueangel,Universal,Magician,Alpine)
are strongly different from TI OMAP Typhoon and Wizard.

Re: call to developers

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Originally Posted by cr2

The HTC wince phones are hardly limited in their
resources

Compared to my desktop, i'd say it is horribly limited... compared to other pocketpc devices, it is more or less the same. stronger somewhere, weak elsewhere.

Re: call to developers

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If you have the CPU datasheet, porting linux by
looking at the wince operation should not
be extremely difficult.

I am sorry, i do not understand you... what do you mean by "wince operation" ? You mean the way the bootloader starts windowsCE?

Originally Posted by tsiros

I am sorry, i do not understand you... what do you mean by "wince operation" ? You mean the way the bootloader starts windowsCE?

You can adapt the haret program
http://wiki.xda-developers.com/index.php?pagename=HaRET
to work on the omap.
Currently it supports only sa11x0, pxa, s3*
The gpio watching support is suboptimal, so
if you will write a timer interrupt-driven routine
everybody will benefit from it