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18: <font color="#0000ff"><i>Open</i></font><font color="#000084">BSD</font></a>
19: <font color="#e00000">palm</font>
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1.6 bcallah 28: OpenBSD/palm was an experimental port of OpenBSD that used to run on PDAs made
29: by Palm with an ARM PXA2xx processor.
1.14 deraadt 30: <p>
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1.14 deraadt 32: There was never an official release of the OpenBSD/palm port.
1.1 jasper 33: <p>
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1.8 deraadt 35: <strong>The OpenBSD/palm port was discontinued after the 5.3 release.</strong>
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40: <a name="history"></a>
41: <h3><font color="#0000e0"><strong>History</strong></font></h3>
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43: <p>
1.6 bcallah 44: The Palm port was started as a fork of the Zaurus port in March 2009 with the
1.1 jasper 45: intention to make the system run on Palm Tungsten|T5. The project was later
46: approved as a semestral work at the <a href="http://www.ksi.mff.cuni.cz/en/">
47: Department of Software Engineering</a>, <a
48: href="http://www.mff.cuni.cz/toISO-8859-2.en/">Faculty
49: of Mathematics and Physics</a>, <a href="http://www.cuni.cz/UKENG-1.html">
50: Charles University in Prague</a> mentored by <a
51: href="http://www.egothor.org/~galambos/">Leo Galambos</a>.</p>
52: <p>
53: As the project advanced, support for more Palm devices was added as well as
54: support for various peripherals and the project outgrew the initial agreement
55: for the semestral project.</p>
56: <a name="status"></a>
57: <h3><font color="#0000e0"><strong>Current status</strong></font></h3>
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1.6 bcallah 60: OpenBSD/palm had been tested and was known to be working on the following
61: models: Tungsten|T5, T|X, LifeDrive and the Zire72. There was also initial
62: support for the Palm Tungsten|C.</p>
1.1 jasper 63: <p>
1.6 bcallah 64: Support included the LCD, buttons, USB host (through a hub with external
1.4 ian 65: power supply), PXA SD/MMC controller and UART (not available on Zire72).
66: On Palm LifeDrive there is also a driver for the builtin hard drive.</p>
1.1 jasper 67: <h3><font color="#0000e0"><strong>Supported hardware</strong></font></h3>
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1.1 jasper 71: For a complete system component and device driver listing for this architecture,
1.17 ! tb 72: see <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=intro&arch=zaurus&sektion=4">intro(4/zaurus)</a>.
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75: <li><strong>Tungsten|T5 / T|X / LifeDrive / Zire 72</strong>
1.2 jasper 76: <li>Intel PXA27x ARM CPU.
1.17 ! tb 77: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=com&sektion=4">com(4)</a> standard, infrared and bluetooth serial ports.
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1.17 ! tb 79: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=lcd&arch=palm&sektion=4">lcd(4)</a> display panel, supporting <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=wscons&arch=zaurus&sektion=4">wscons(4)</a>.
! 80: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=wskbd&arch=palm&sektion=4">wskbd(4)</a> keyboard.
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1.17 ! tb 82: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=wd&sektion=4">wd(4)</a> on-board microdrive.
! 83: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=ohci&sektion=4">ohci(4)</a>
! 84: USB controller supporting most <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=usb&sektion=4">usb(4)</a> devices.
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1.17 ! tb 88: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=pxammc&sektion=4&arch=palm">pxammc(4)</a> MMC/SD/SDIO controller.
! 89: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=pxagpio&sektion=4&arch=palm">pxagpio(4)</a> GPIO controller.
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99: <li>Devices that can be connected:
100: <ul>
1.17 ! tb 101: <li>Most USB devices, see <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=usb&sektion=4">usb(4)</a> for a list.
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