On Thursday 14 June 2001 01:42 am, Alan Ingleby wrote:
> Already tried that, too. As far as I can see, it's not even Linux. I
> personally think the whole thing was just a hoax. How can you possibly
> emulate the whole PalmOS environment under Linux, and make is as
> transparent as that, and not using any PalmOS code, and still keep within
> the 2 Meg ROM limit?
Well, they did it back in the PalmOS 2 days :) Dunno, I downloaded the ROMs
a few years ago.. just haven't tried it. Lemme see..
Dang! That was easy as pie to test. Just re-downloaded the ROM cuz I lost
the old one, gunziped it and ran xcopilot like they said. Instant Linux with
WindStone!
Okay you are going to think I am making this up again..
The cool part is that it gives a uClinux shell prompt on my console, and and
and it also has a pile of regular Palm apps loaded in a mounted RAM
filesystem; AddressBkR, BigClock, BS Calc, LauncherIII v1.5.2, Datebk3,
Digger, Galax, GR, HackMaster, Jot, LoadRunner I, PacMan, PocketChess,
QwHack, Tetris, Viewer III,
Hrm can't seem to load new apps into it with xcopilot. But it's certainly
not a hoax. Oop wait, I was trying to use the GUI. There are some bins in
the /bin of the console, one of them is loadprc but I think it only will load
from the RAM filesystem it has mounted.
At any rate, it is very cool and only took a few minutes to try out. Very
clever. Here's the bootup on the console:
uClinux/MC68328
Flat model support (C) 1998 Kenneth Albanowski, D. Jeff Dionne, TSHG Ltd.
TRG SuperPilot FLASH card support <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Console driver (without boot console): mono mc68328 40x26, 1 virtual console
(max 63)
Calibrating delay loop.. ok - 5.49 BogoMIPS
Memory available: 596k/800k RAM, 373k/800k ROM (268k kernel data, 427k code)
Swansea University Computer Society NET3.035 for Linux 2.0
NET3: Unix domain sockets 0.13 for Linux NET3.035.
Swansea University Computer Society TCP/IP for NET3.034
IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP
uClinux version 2.0.33 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 2.7.2.3) #1920 Thu
Nov 18 13:45:52 KST 1999
rs68328_init
MC68328 serial driver version 1.00
ttyS0 at 0x0001 (irq = 0) is a builtin MC68328 UART
MC68328 digitizer.
Ramdisk driver initialized : 16 ramdisks of 4096K size
Blkmem (C) 1998 D. Jeff Dionne, Kenneth Albanowski, TSHG Ltd.
loop: registered device at major 7
PPP: version 2.2.0 (dynamic channel allocation)
TCP compression code copyright 1989 Regents of the University of California
PPP Dynamic channel allocation code copyright 1995 Caldera, Inc.
PPP line discipline registered.
SLIP: version 0.8.4-NET3.019-NEWTTY (dynamic channels, max=256).
CSLIP: code copyright 1989 Regents of the University of California.
VFS: Mounted root (romfs filesystem) readonly.
reset hardware
interrupts enabled
=============================================================================
Welcome to uClinux/Pilot!
uClinux release 2.0.33, build #1920 Thu Nov 18 13:45:52 KST 1999
uClinux/Pilot release 1.0.0, build #932 Thu Nov 18 13:19:57 KST 1999
=============================================================================
Mounting proc on /proc
Expanding initial ramdisk image into /dev/ram0
Mounting /dev/ram0 on /var
Making /var/tmp
Attaching loopback device
Lauching WindStonePE!!!
Loading prc....
Starting task manager
uClinux command shell (version 1.1)
> Loading prc complete....
Starting UIAppShell....
>
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