NetBook Pro

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On Tue, Feb 07, 2006 at 08:54:57 -0800, Tyler Regas wrote:

> Has anyone had any success installing 2.x or 3.0 on a Psion Teklogix
> NetBook Pro? This is a 400MHz XScale PXA-255 processor with 128MBs
> of RAM.

What system ASIC do they use.  The one in Psion7 was proprietary, with
no documentation available publicly.  They had an arrangement with the
Linux folks to make the docs available to them.  If NetBook Pro uses
the same ASIC, we need the docs made available.


> The one thing I found odd was that, unlike the hpcmips port,
> HPCBoot.exe is nowhere to be found in the hpcarm files.  It is
> mentioned many times.

It is in the cvs.  It was not installed into the release dir untill
recently.  You can get it from:

http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/src/sys/arch/hpc/stand/binary/ARM/hpcboot.exe.uue?rev=1.5&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup

and uudecode.


> I have a partitionable 5GB hardcard and a 2GB CF card which I can
> partition in Linux if need be. I just want to put a traditional
> install of NetBSD on this thing. Any help is appreciated.

It's a nice machine (I used to have Psion7 and the design and general
feel of the machine was *very* nice, and NetBook Pro has the same
design).  But it's 900 quids excluding VAT (1055 with VAT) from
eXpansys - which is kinda prohibitive pricing for a hobby use. :)

It would be nice to support it, but we need someone with 1) hardware,
2) willing to hack on it.  (And then there's may be that documentation
problem).

Thanks.

SY, Uwe
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