Subject: Re: can the hpcmips toolchain be built and operated on FreeBSD?
To: John Utz <john@utzweb.net>
From: billy ball <bball@tux.org>
List: port-hpcmips
Date: 08/31/2001 09:35:18
On Fri, 31 Aug 2001, John Utz wrote:

> i have a VTech Helio.

i got one in the hopes of having a workable Linux distro on it... but
alas, it looks like the project is not moving forward that much...
(correct me if i'm wrong)...

[snip]

> also, it will not require the use of pbsdboot from wince, because there is
> no wince! so i should be able to boot straight into netbsd.
[snip]

that would be cool...

> PS. warner, here's the vital bits for the pda info page. this is copied
> from the now moribund http://vhl-tools.sourceforge.net/ page
               ^^^^^^^^
i agree... browsing the code reveals little or development efforts in 2001
at all... which brings up another point:

- where's the source to Xhpc? 

> "75MHz Philips R3912-based handheld computer. It has a 160x160 16
> greylevel LCD with touchpanel, audio in/out, 8M of RAM, and 2M of flash."
> 
> -- 
> 
> John L. Utz III
> john@utzweb.net
> 
> Idiocy is the Impulse Function in the Convolution of Life
>