Subject: Re: Psion 5
To: Andrew McMurry <a.mcmurry1@physics.oxford.ac.uk>
From: David Feustel <feustel@ix.netcom.com>
List: port-arm32
Date: 01/29/1999 15:26:44
Has Linux been successfully booted on the Geofox yet?

The Geofox has a 16 meg option, although the fact that
the company has gone belly-up may make the unit hard
to come by.

Andrew McMurry wrote:
> 
> I see that the people have got Linux booting on the Psion 5.
> (http://www.calcaria.net/). They have updated their bootloader program
> from what it used to be, and I might be able to get my NetBSD port to
> boot now. At the time that I did the work, the bootloader wasn't good
> enough, and not having a W95 or NT machine, I couldn't use the EPOC
> development kit to produce my own.
> 
> I don't have much time available at the moment, though, so if any one
> else is interested in helping get NetBSD/arm32 working on the Psion 5,
> please contact me.
> 
> My code is very basic, and doesn't yet support the screen or keyboard,
> however, the serial port is supported, and a comms program on another
> machine can be used as a console.
> 
>         Andrew

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