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Porting Linux to PDAsOpening up a new class of devices to linux |
Last updated: 20/07/2007
Please dontate to this cause! see below for why... You can donate anything you like, hardware to port on, money, equipment...
I am now looking for an e830 and e570 especially, to allow me to support the entire toshiba range. Working or broken, no matter. Any broken units would be a great help also.
| Date | Purchase | Cost | Funds used | Purpose | Acknowledgements |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20/07/2007 | e750 | Donated | 0 UKP | Unit to add to the cluster project | Many thanks to Adam Field of badtech.org |
| 23/05/2005 | e310 | 85 UKP | 85 UKP | Broken unit for stripping to find JTAG | |
| 09/05/2005 | e750 motherboards | 40ukp | 40ukp | boards for the cluster project. | |
| 28/03/2005 | e310 | 33 UKP | 33 UKP | Broken unit for parts | |
| 17/03/2005 | e310 | Donated | 0 UKP | e3xx support | Thanks to Al Sutton and Family who run argosytelcrest.co.uk |
| 01/03/2004 | e740 (broken) | Donated | 0 UKP | PDA to swap mobo from | Thanks to menuworld.com! |
| 26/02/2004 | e800 PDA | 354 UKP | 204 UKP | PDA to work on | Thanks to all who donated, again including many of the members of Brighthand.com. |
| e750 (broken) | 25 UKP | 0 UKP | Hardware to study for the port. | ||
| e7xx USB hotsync cable | Donated | 0 UKP | To allow access to VGA/USBhost and still retain USB client connection | ||
| JTAG components | 10 UKP | 0 UKP | Parts to build a JTAG lead | ||
| e740 (broken) | 50 UKP | 50 UKP | Broken PDA for tracing hardware details. | ||
| e740 PDA | 120 UKP | 90 UKP | PDA to work on | Thanks to the members of Brighthand.com. |
I have been coding on linux for some time now, and have decided recently to spend some of my spare time porting linux to any PDAs I can get my hands on. As I own an e740 and e750, I have decided to start there, and the port is maturing fairly quickly, despite being based around the 2.6 kernel, which (until now) has been missing a lot of attention on the subsystems needed for PDAs to work well. I have helped clean up PCMCIA, and UDC support, and developed a new infrastructure for reporting battery status. I also have begun using the new SoC layer in hh.org kernels.
I am not rich, and as such I depend on donations in order to buy hardware and tools to use in this project. The e740 was bought for me by the good folks at Brighthand, for example.
Without your help I cannot keep up my work. All the donations are used for purchasing PDAs and equipment, and all my work is submitted to the public domain in a timely manner (including full sources)