Re: Dell Axim X51/X51v

Valery Ushakov <[email protected]> wrote:
>On Sun, Feb 04, 2024 at 19:33:36 +0100, Thorsten Alge wrote:
>
>> It seems the dock actually has an serial adapter built in but still nothing.
>> On another page https://www.netbsd.org/ports/hpcarm/howto-use.html it says
>> the hpcboot.com does only support WinCE2.11 and PocketPC(WinCE 3.xx) but the
>> Dell Axim x50/x51 run on 5.0 or 5.1. I don't suppose there is any active
>> development going on since it is more than a decade old.
>
> "decade old" is not a problem (VAXen are way older than that :), but
> the wince hardware is usually _very_ closed, so, yes, there's not much
> incentive to work on these...

The DEC/HP/Compaq PDAs had good documentation as part of their open
source handhelds.org project, no idea if enough is known about the Dell
ones to do a port.

We could easily do a port to the initial iPaq models that replaced WinCE
in flash with NetBSD, I have the changes to the bootloader to allow it
to boot NetBSD as well as Linux. The issue at the time was that we
didn't have a flash filesystem.

Robert Swindells