Subject: Re: casio E100 / hpcmips
To: Chuck Cranor <chuck@research.att.com>
From: Matthew Orgass <darkstar@pgh.net>
List: port-mips
Date: 10/20/1999 21:56:06
On Wed, 20 Oct 1999, Chuck Cranor wrote:

>     a friend of mine has a Casio E-100 and wants to try and get hpcmips
> running on it.   the web page only claims support for E-55/E500.  he
> tried the snapshot and the E-100 ran the pbsdboot.exe, but it wasn't
> clear what to set the framebuffer type to (E-100 has color screen) or,
> alternately, how to get a serial console.  loading a kernel with 
> framebuffer set to E-55 didn't do anthing interesting (other than 
> hard-hang the system).   what are the odds of getting hpcmips to work 
> on something like the E-100/E-105?
> (see http://www.casio.com/hpc/detail.cfm?PID=1425 for on-line info...)

  Linux is running on the E-105, so it should be possible to get it to do
something interesting :).  From http://www.ltc.com/linux-mips/e-105.html:
Size		240x320 visible 256x320 virtual
Address		0xa200000
Bytes/line	512

  The type is probably D2_M2L_something (maybe try 3 first).

  ID(E-100): 4104300 C10201
  ID(E-105): 4104300 C10202

Matthew Orgass
darkstar@pgh.net