Other Help Topics :: Sombody tried DSL on Psion netBook?



Quote (chaostic @ July 09 2008,08:15)
I'm afraid that (afaik) any compiled executable would need to be recompiled for ARM, not just the kernel.

That can be done on the psion, if make works...
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Drivers specific for the Psion would need to be found and compiled.

I thought maybe make use of the work already done: there is an initrd.gz for 7 series and netBook, there is a kernel for 32MB and 64...
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The current boot method (minirt) might not be compatible.

There even is an os.img, that boots from CF-Disk... all debian...

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The only thing in dsl that wouldn't need changing is the idea and maybe the filesystem. Even some of the scripts would need changing, depending on what version of a program you can compile for arm (if the program can be compiled for arm that is).

Of course, this is all conjecture, based on the efforts I seen done for porting DSL to the xbox.
Well, you could cross-compile on a bigger/better desktop, instead of compiling all on the psion. As far as any existing files, that's all you. :P Good luck.
Quote (curaga @ July 09 2008,09:12)
Xbox is a celeron though, so it has been very much easier.


So that has been done? I did not know that, good job!
Quote (chaostic @ July 09 2008,14:40)
Well, you could cross-compile on a bigger/better desktop, instead of compiling all on the psion. As far as any existing files, that's all you. :P Good luck.

Offcourse.
The existing files could be used to start with.
initrd and kernel are nessesary, the root file system could be used from DSL, recompiled no?
After some hours of investigation, i can confirm the efforts already made to boot linux on several psion machines.
The most significant achievements were made in between may 2003 and Dec 2006. Now a debian os can be installed and updated. But it cannot be switched off, the knoppix way, like DSL, and it is way bigger (too big, if you ask me..) There are 2 version of a root system: SargeBook_v5.tgz, a 95 MB file, 234 MB when unpacked, and a lite version, but still much too big.

https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=8846
is where all the files are,
Dillo is there, Fluxbox, Minimo and Firefox, even a qt-embedded version.
and a howto is found here:
http://linux-7110.sourceforge.net/howtos/netbook_new/index.htm

OpenPsion is now a fully functional, basic linux system.
All known systems are based on Debian Linux or ipk systems (Sharp zaurus, Compaq ipaq - see e.g., handhelds.org, or myzaurus.com ) since these systems have the best support for the ARM cpus. New debian arm packages (*_arm.deb, or a slimmer set of packages, *_arm.ipkg) can be downloaded and installed directly using "dpkg -i *_arm.deb", similarly for ipkg.

Very impressive, indeed, but 'sarge' is just 'too large'... ;)

What would i have to change, in order to use the improvements from knoppix, (kill signal, automatic hardware configuration, i realy love the intelligent way knoppix and DSL are booted), and the minimal very functional DSL pkgs?
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