Re: NetBSD on PDAs/mobile phones?

[Andy Ruhl <acruhl%gmail.com@localhost>]

On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 10:57 AM, Mayuresh <mayuresh%acm.org@localhost> wrote:
> I don't know whether this is an odd question to ask.
>
> Considering emphasis of NetBSD on running on many platforms, I'm curious
> whether it runs on any mobile phone / PDA devices.
>
> I was specifically interested in Nokia N900, whose native OS is Maemo
> (Linux).

It's not an odd question, it's just a question of time and effort probably.

For most modern machines, if you can access the hardware or bootloader
to load a kernel, and the CPU archtecture and basic hardware are
known, it can probably boot NetBSD eventually.

That said, not much work has been done in this area. There might be a
reason for that.

Andy