Re: Familiar on Intermec 761

Paul Sokolovsky <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.handhelds.linux.familiar
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hello Ekin,

Monday, June 25, 2007, 6:34:34 PM, you wrote:

> Hi all,

> I have a general question about porting linux to an Intermec 761 (rugged PDA
> with an Arm PXA255 chip).

        "Porting Linux" first of all means porting kernel.

> I tried running the H2200 procedure (the same chip - just wanted to see  the
> errors) without building anything and it all worked fine until the "jumping
> to linux" part.

        In other words, it didn't work at all, right? ;-) Which is
quite expectable, because in embedded world, you usually cannot run
kernel for one device on another (architectures or their details
differ too much).

> After that the screen went black and the device was in need
> of a cold-boot. The log seems fine other than the "ace_ddi" loading error
> and one unrecognized command (ATIDBG). The "Go go go" part is there at
> least. Haret sees the device as a generic PXA device.

> If anyone has any experience with linux on Intermec devices (I have the
> impression that not many people do), or anyoune can point me in the right
> direction i would be grateful.

        HH.org community has great deal of experience porting Linux
kernel to various devices (more than fifty ports were made, of
different status of course). I guess by now it's fair to say that if
port is done right, in a month it can easily reach B- status per wiki
classification (http://handhelds.org/moin/moin.cgi/SupportedHandheldSummary).
Start with the first tutorial at http://handhelds.org/moin/moin.cgi/DeveloperDocuments ,
have a look at http://handhelds.org/moin/moin.cgi/HandheldHardwareXref
, and subscribe to dedicated list https://handhelds.org/mailman/listinfo/kernel-discuss
, if you're ready for the trial.

> Thanks in advance,
> Ekin Dino



-- 
Best regards,
 Paul                            mailto:[email protected]

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