Linux for SH3 is being developed and you can help!

[TechMage]

Yes, Chriva. When you downloaded the Compaq Ipaq upgrade, you installed it from your Desktop PC onto your Pocket PC. Windows ME (Millenium Edition) is your Desktop's OS, and when you were 37% into installing the flash upgrade, your desktop PC froze up!


My question is, what happened next? Did your PPC blow up?

[TechMage]

Well I took a chance and tried the Jornada 680 version of Linux on my Jornada 548. Nothing happened. The bootloader runs from Windows CE and has a config file which tells the bootloader how to load the Linux kernel into ram and kick Windows CE out. When I run the bootloader WinCE freezes and I have to reset the device. Everything in the ram is totaly lost after I do this, and WinCE initialzes setup again. I am going to look though a bunch of docs on the LinuxSH project page, and see what I can do. The bootloader is designed for Wince 2.10, and I'm thinking Wince 3.0 handles the boot process differently, so I will have to build a bootloader for Wince 3.0. Maybe I can find one online, but I doubt it. If any of you guys know of a Wince 3.0 bootloader for an SH3 processor or know of any information that would help me build my own, please tell. Also because the Jornada 548 has non-flashible Rom, I am going to have to boot Linux from the CF card.

[TechMage]

I guess no one gives a damn about Linux or SH3 or both together, since this thread has been dead for days.

Your loss. I guess when and if I get this running on my Jornada and I am playing Linux ports of Starcraft, Warcraft 2, Fallout, Motorcross Madness, and other cool games, you can all go to Hell, as I won't share my Linux port. *sticks tounge out*

Lol! I'm just kidding.

[randall]

[TechMage]

Ok Mr. Smarty pants here are versions of those games for Linux, and yes they are open source so I can re-compile them for SH3. *sticks tounge out at Randall*

Warcraft 2 and Starcraft (using FreeCraft(opensource)):

Fallout 2 (using Wine(opensource))

[JMickeyD]

[brendan]

no, not really

anyhow

To my knowledge only the newer "better" devices can be flashed, as they have an "eeprom" not a "rom".

Older devices like hp430's etc don't, and if ya stuff it, it just requires a hard-reset... (bummer), I don't even think the 500 series can be flashed, I know the casio E1xx series can not be.... ipaq, yep, wouldn't run it on an ipaq (fullstop), $600USD is a lot to waste

(thats it they port it to other cpu's )

but again, why?,

hell us programmers only have to currently contend with 4 cpu types, fast becomming 1, I hope!. Not to mention the "non-standard" standards that some PDA developers are "introducing" into there platform, wireless connectivity, so why the hell not add another OS, make it even more simple....

again, what for?, so you can be some fancy computer geek with linux,

horses for courses......

hell I've a few old HP sci-calculators, maybe someone can port linux to punch-cards... why stop there, and how long will it be to someone tried to load linux onto there new "internet fridge",

If linux is so "good" why don't compaq (hp) just make PDA's OS independant.... could it be they want a user-friendy, no-fuss easy to use OS....

don't get me wrong I run free-bsd on my webserver, and I love unix, but on a PDA..... man what next

-brendan

[TechMage]

Well I gave up on the project anyway after I had to hard reset my device, and the sound was not working! I thought I had fucked up big time the CPU or something, but I just did another hard reset and it was fine. Also, the 2 bootloaders avalible for SH3 do not seem to work in WinCE 3.0. I'm too buisy too waste my time making a SH3 WinCE 3.0 bootloader, filesystem, and probably a new SH3 kernel specificly designed for the J54x series.

[chriva404]

Bochs?? isn't that a x86 emu for mac?

[chriva404]

[randall]

[chriva404]

for ce 3.0

[TechMage]

[chriva404]