Hello Palm,

Generally they supported, but AFAIK starting from 1.20 Treo update
pure 68K slot driver makes devices crash on reset. Porting to the ARM
native target solves the problem. We had this problem with our RAM Drive
application (http://www.softick.com/ramdrive/) :)

Sunday, November 19, 2006, 9:15:44 AM, you wrote:

PDFd> Subject: 68k slot drivers on PalmOS 5
PDFd> From: "Alexander R. Pruss" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
PDFd> Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2006 15:57:13 -0000
PDFd> X-Message-Number: 2

PDFd> Do 68k-based slot drivers not work on PalmOS 5?  I've noticed
PDFd> that while the PalmOS 5 Simulator can make use of a 68k-based
PDFd> slot driver, the Simulator crashes on soft reset if you have one
PDFd> installed.  It could be a bug in my slot driver, but I tried to
PDFd> make a version that simply returns an error message to the open
PDFd> call, and that still crashes the system.

PDFd> I could do it in ARM code, but I want to avoid figuring that
PDFd> out (plus the debugging is harder since I can't use the Simulator).
PDFd> ----------------------------------------------------------------------



Best regards,
Dmytro Pohromskyy                          mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

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Softick RAM Drive - create virtual storage card in main memory
http://www.softick.com


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