From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Feb 9 16:50:27 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from odin.ac.hmc.edu (Odin.AC.HMC.Edu [134.173.32.75]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 54C5337B6A4 for ; Fri, 9 Feb 2001 16:50:07 -0800 (PST) Received: (from brdavis@localhost) by odin.ac.hmc.edu (8.11.0/8.11.0) id f1A0nwV23651; Fri, 9 Feb 2001 16:49:58 -0800 Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2001 16:49:58 -0800 From: Brooks Davis To: Paul Halliday Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Handspring. Message-ID: <20010209164958.A22634@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> References: <3A849074.76C43CEC@penix.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <3A849074.76C43CEC@penix.org>; from dp@penix.org on Fri, Feb 09, 2001 at 07:51:00PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Feb 09, 2001 at 07:51:00PM -0500, Paul Halliday wrote: > > What are the chances of porting to this baby? None what so ever. The processor on the Handsping (and all other current PalmOS based devices) doesn't have an MMU and most UNIX-like OSes assume you have one. There is a Linux port of some sort and I've heard mention that there's some intrest in the NetBSD community, but itty-bitty, feature-poor processors don't really fit with FreeBSD's server/embedded (generally high-end embedded systems) focus. In the future there may be PalmOS based devices that you could port FreeBSD to, but that will be after then finish the hardware abstraction layer. Once someone gets around to doing the work, the StrongARM port should work on HP iPAQs, but that's not what you were asking. -- Brooks -- Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message