Re: Google Summer of Code 2006

Erik Hovland wrote:

> I have been approached by Google to ask if hh.org is interested in the
> Summer of Code for 2006. I am interested in being the organizer again if
> a few mentors step up again.
> 
> What do you say, gang?

I'm not a regular poster here, but if any students are interesting in 
taking on finishing the Linux on Treo 650 port, it might be a good 
summer-student-sized bit of work.

The only problem with this project would be that it would require a 
couple of hundred dollars of hardware (ie: the purchase of a used Treo 
650 from eBay) to get it up and running.  I don't know if this is 
possible within the confines of the project.

We have it up and running to the point where it boots and GPE/keypad/SD 
card works, but we could certainly offer someone a project to help 
polish up the rest of the work.  I'd recommend either all or a subset of 
  the following projects:

1.  Cleaning up the port to the point where it would be acceptable to 
check in to hh.org.  This requires moving the port from the hijacked 
Palm Lifedrive directory to a new Treo 650 directory and fixing up the 
machine number, as well up updating the port to the latest hh.org kernel 
verison.

2.  Getting Gomunicator working on the Treo by finishing the reverse 
engineering of the GPIOs to activate the phone and serial port.

3.  Getting something like Garux working on the 650 so that other people 
can enjoy and contribute to the port.  This would need to be able boot 
the kernel and initrd from the SD card from PalmOS.

4.  Getting bluetooth up and running by figuring out the userspace magic 
to make it happen.

http://gehennom.net/~tool/tiki-index.php?page=TreoLinuxPics
http://www.grack.com/programming/misc/TreoLinux.html

It's basically a straight-forward PXA-270 Linux port, so there should be 
a great deal of mentoring experience available with us (the original 
porters of the Treo 650 Linux project) and the ton of other PXE Linux 
ports on the list.

Matt.