[linux-sh:03206] Re: jornada 680 linux (fwd)

Here's an update on the status of Linux on the 680 (and 620/660LX as well). 
This might be more info than you specifically asked for, but consider it to 
be a general status update for the entire list.
For now, if you insist on running Linux at this moment, there's indeed the 
Dodes distribution. It is fairly old (2001-2002-ish) and it runs a 2.5.24 
kernel. The best install instructions I found are at 
http://www.handhelds.org/z/wiki/HpJornada680 .
I believe it has XFree packages, but they aren't of much use without a 
touchscreen driver, which isn't present in the kernel.
I and a few other developers have been working at creating a new distribution 
for the 680/690 and 620LX/660LX machines. Thanks to the people on this list, 
quite good progress has been made to the kernel, 2.6.4 works with patches and 
I believe 2.6.5 builds from kernel.org source (although we haven't had a 
chance to test it, it did build fine). As for userland, gcc and/or 
glibc/uclibc seems to have some issues regarding sh3. I think we have a 
somewhat stable gcc/glibc toolchain which at least produces (presumably) 
stable static code, in a shared environment built with the same toolchain 
we're getting Illegal Instruction errors. Since we don't have extensive means 
of debugging for sh3, progress on userland has been fairly slow, but up on 
our site there are static packages for busybox and pcmcia-cs, which should 
get you a working basic test system with network connectivity. You can grab 
the files and monitor our progress at http://jlime.theinternet.nl . Progress 
is a bit slow at the moment, there are only 2 of us working on it (with some 
help from others) and we don't have much time. We are however persistent and 
won't rest before we get Linux running on this neat little machine.

I don't know anything about korganizer, so I can't tell you if it will sync. I 
am not sure if korganizer supports Windows CE at all, but if it does, it will 
likely support the 680 as well. Maybe we can make it sync when we get our 
distro running, but I can't make any promises.