On 11/22/05, Jim Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > One still cannot AFAIK, build an ARM-only program. > > Doesn't matter, because there are no devices you could run it on.
you can build ARM-only OS 5 applications :) if you do some messing around. there are a number of examples: - hotsync app - tapwaves rom updater was a native ARM app > That's the other big disappointment about Palm for me - PalmOS 6 looks > dead in the water. It was released to manufacturers years ago now, and > still not a sniff of a device using it. And this Palm on Linux rubbish - it's > not > going to be the OS, it's just going to be a GUI toolkit, isn't it? Assuming it > ever gets built, of course. i think what we know as "cobalt" is dead in the water from a kernel point of view. the palmos on "linux" concept is actually a good idea. and, there are a number of GUI elements to take from cobalt and put on top of the linux kernel. the most common GUI interface for linux devices is Qt. its not that professional - and, could do with some work. porting the PalmOS GUI layer on top of a linux kernel would be the best option. users dont need to know its linux inside - they care about how it looks and how you interact with the unit. palmsource has already gone through a number of different kernels over the years.. its just that "linux" was a buzz word recently :) -- // Aaron Ardiri -- For information on using the PalmSource Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/
