Date: Sun, 25 Jul 1999 17:33:41 -0600 From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> To: Dean Brundage <Dean.Brundage@EBay.Sun.COM> Cc: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD on handheld computers Message-ID: <199907252333.RAA35853@harmony.village.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 23 Jul 1999 11:44:50 PDT." <199907231844.LAA26411@ha1mil.EBay.Sun.COM> References: <199907231844.LAA26411@ha1mil.EBay.Sun.COM>
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In message <199907231844.LAA26411@ha1mil.EBay.Sun.COM> Dean Brundage writes: : I was at a computer convention a few weeks ago and passed by : someone using what looked like a Sharp handheld computer running : Linux (or some unix os). I didn't get a good enough look at it and : was unble to ask him questions, but it got my curiousity piqued. I : want to get myself a hand-held computer, nad since it looks like it : might be possible, am interested in running fBSD on it. Does anyone : out there know of resources I can tap? I'm currently looking at : Sharp Mobilon, NEC Mobile Pro, (the new)IBM Workpad z50, and the IBM : Thinkpad 240 (which looks more like a ultra-small laptop but is more : than I want to spend right now) Linux isn't running on the MIPS based handhelds yet, nor on the SH-3 based ones. If you'd like to run NetBSD on your handheld, then you can run NetBSD/hpcmips. Information on it can be found as a link off my pda page at http://www.freebsd.org/~imp/pdamips.html Follow the NetBSD/hpcmips page. There likely needs to be a better English page, but the one that is there was translated by me from Japanese, so I guess I know who to blame... If you are shopping for a pda, you'll likely want to checkout my page. The Vr41xx series is best supported by the NetBSD/hpcmips port. The Linux folks (which you can find over at http://www.linuxce.com/) may also target the R39xx class of machines (both the Toshiba TMPR39xx and the Phillips PR31x00) since someone who has a NINO wants linux to run on it. The main person who is actually doing work on the Linux/Mips + pda work has a VADEM Clio. The Sharp Mobilon uses the TMPR3912, which isn't supported by the NetBSD/hpcmips kernel yet. The NEC Mobile Pro uses either the Vr4111 or Vr4121 depending on the model (well, the really old ones use the Vr4101 or Vr4102, but they are limited to 4M RAM). The IBM Workpad z50 uses a Vr4121 at 131MHz. I just wish I had one of those nice, small fast PDAs rather than my nice, small slow one... The NEC MobileGear familiy is best supported, but you have to get those in Japan. I've booted NetBSD/hpcmips on my Everex Freestyle Associate (A-10, w/16M upgrade) and it works ok, but with no input device, the thing is limited. I've also booted NetBSD/hpcmips on my VADEM Clio (which is the same thing as the Sharp Tripad), and my fixes for the keyboard have recently been integrated into the kernel, but I don't think that the pccard slot stuff is working yet. FreeBSD/mips isn't ready for something like this yet.... I lost a lot of work on this in a disk crash while I was not a praticing member of the church of the daily backup. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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