Re: Psion Netbook support?

Valeriy E. Ushakov wrote:
[...]
> The problem is that the docs for the proprietary system ASIC used in
> the Series 7/Netbook are not publicly avialble.  I think Linux folks
> had a special deal with Psion PLC to get access to the docs.

I do actually have Linux running on it (it's recompiling the kernel right now,
very slowly), but it's a very old version and hardware support is poor. I was
hoping that NetBSD's better modularity would give better support for things
like the PCMCIA, which should hopefully be largely generic SA1100.

Is there really not enough information available in the Linux kernel source to
implement all this in NetBSD?

... time passes ...

Oh, dear. Comments in the Linux source code along the lines of:

	/* What's this anyway? */

...do not inspire confidence.

[...]
> I gave my Series 7 away - I could keep either 7 or Jornada 690 from
> the surplus hardware pile we had after a project that used them was
> cancelled - and concentrated on 690 (hpcsh) instead :)

Yes, I scrounged mine from work too. I actually also got a Victor MP-C101
hpcmips device too, but that's a story for another mailing list. (NetBSD
doesn't run on that, either. Sigh...)

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