On Fri, 20 April 2001, Pascal Bauermeister wrote:
> Since more and more people try PicoGUI, why not make some announcement on
> both the uclinux list (I think many people with low-cost hw still search for
> a GUI system) and linuxdevices.com ? I'd suggest we let Fred (of Smartdata)
> first put some autoconf in the CVS before the announcements. Then we could
> think about making a joint announcement.
Well, I think that my little experiment with the Helio has shown that a great way to
get people interested in a project is to port it :)
It might be nice to do a port to the Agenda VR3. Should be really easy, since the
hardware is nearly the same as the Helio except for the bigger screen and better power
management in Linux. Could also possibly give them an alternative to the slowness
they've been experiencing using X and FLTK.
What I'd probably be more likely to do before porting to the VR3 is port to the Palm.
The thing that makes it difficult is that the Palm has no easy bootloader ROM like the
Helio does. It would eventually be possible to reflash the ROMs, but development
would probably only be practical in RAM. I think they've got uClinux running on the
Palm V with its 8MB memory, but all I have available is this Palm III with 2MB. If you
account for 0.5 to 1 MB of kernel, 0.5 MB of RAM for programs, and around a megabyte
of ramdisk, it would be tight but maybe workable. Sure would be a neat demo of running
a GUI in limited resources, using 2MB for OS code/data plus working memory!
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