Yesterday I got another hardware donation (Isn't it nice being a geek :) of a used
Philips Nino 312 with 8MB memory and a 75mhz MIPS cpu. Today with the latest kernel
CVS and toolchain from linux-vr.org, I got it booting linux with a shell prompt on the
serial port!
There's no framebuffer yet (AFAIK) but the BSD bootloader I'm using, pbsdboot, does
initialize the video somewhat. Hopefully I can read the source to pbsdboot and learn
enough to hack together a PicoGUI framebuffer driver. This thing is definitely
overkill for PicoGUI, but it would definitely be nice to have a port to Handheld /
Pocket computers.
Of more general interest to handheld and pocket computers running WinCE (as it would
take a little effort to port this to other handhelds) it would also be good to have a
WinCE port. There are two obstacles to this, but I think they can be overcome:
- The only compiler (so far) that can make WinCE binaries is M$ VC++ 5 or
later. This poses some problems for the build system, specifically the menu and font
converter. Quickest solution is just to separately distribute a "VC++ kit" for picogui
that has pre-made conifg files, fonts, and a MSVC++ project file
- It would be nice to use SDL, but I don't think that will work as SDL only
supports 8bpp and greater color depth. But, there are already video and input drivers
for WinCE in the waba project I might be able to use.
Yep, it would be nice to get picogui running on as many platforms as possible, to
increase the opportunity for handheld/desktop/appliance integration. So far it runs on
linux, windows (sort of), uClinux, and Xcopilot. Ports to other SDL-compatible OSes
and Palm Pilots are probably easy, but not something I expect to get around to soon.
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perl -e'socket S,2,1,tcp;connect S,pack(H16,"0200029a80692d32").\0x8;print
grep!/=/,<S>'
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