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1.18      bentley     1: <!doctype html>
                      2: <html lang=en id=platform>
                      3: <meta charset=utf-8>
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1.1       jasper      5: <title>OpenBSD/palm</title>
                      6: <meta name="description" content="the OpenBSD/palm page">
1.15      tb          7: <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
                      8: <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="openbsd.css">
1.16      tb          9: <link rel="canonical" href="https://www.openbsd.org/palm.html">
1.1       jasper     10:
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1.18      bentley    12: <h2 id=OpenBSD>
1.15      tb         13: <a href="index.html">
1.18      bentley    14: <i>Open</i><b>BSD</b></a>
                     15: palm
1.15      tb         16: </h2>
1.1       jasper     17: <hr>
1.18      bentley    18:
                     19: <table><tr><td>
1.15      tb         20: <p>
1.6       bcallah    21: OpenBSD/palm was an experimental port of OpenBSD that used to run on PDAs made
                     22: by Palm with an ARM PXA2xx processor.
1.18      bentley    23:
1.14      deraadt    24: <p>
1.18      bentley    25: There was never an official release of the OpenBSD/palm port.
1.1       jasper     26:
                     27: <p>
1.18      bentley    28: <strong>The OpenBSD/palm port was discontinued after the 5.3 release.</strong>
1.1       jasper     29:
1.18      bentley    30: <td>
                     31: <a href="images/palm.jpg">
                     32: <img src="images/palm-small.jpg" width="400" height="300" alt="small palm"></a>
                     33: </table>
1.1       jasper     34:
                     35: <hr>
                     36:
1.18      bentley    37: <h3 id="history"><strong>History</strong></h3>
1.1       jasper     38:
                     39: <p>
1.6       bcallah    40: The Palm port was started as a fork of the Zaurus port in March 2009 with the
1.1       jasper     41: intention to make the system run on Palm Tungsten|T5. The project was later
                     42: approved as a semestral work at the <a href="http://www.ksi.mff.cuni.cz/en/">
                     43: Department of Software Engineering</a>, <a
                     44: href="http://www.mff.cuni.cz/toISO-8859-2.en/">Faculty
                     45: of Mathematics and Physics</a>, <a href="http://www.cuni.cz/UKENG-1.html">
                     46: Charles University in Prague</a> mentored by <a
1.18      bentley    47: href="http://www.egothor.org/~galambos/">Leo Galambos</a>.
                     48:
1.1       jasper     49: <p>
                     50: As the project advanced, support for more Palm devices was added as well as
                     51: support for various peripherals and the project outgrew the initial agreement
1.18      bentley    52: for the semestral project.
                     53:
                     54: <h3 id="status"><strong>Current status</strong></h3>
1.1       jasper     55:
                     56: <p>
1.6       bcallah    57: OpenBSD/palm had been tested and was known to be working on the following
                     58: models: Tungsten|T5, T|X, LifeDrive and the Zire72. There was also initial
1.18      bentley    59: support for the Palm Tungsten|C.
                     60:
1.1       jasper     61: <p>
1.6       bcallah    62: Support included the LCD, buttons, USB host (through a hub with external
1.19      deraadt    63: power supply), PXA SD/MMC controller and UART (not available on Zire72).
1.18      bentley    64: On Palm LifeDrive there is also a driver for the builtin hard drive.
                     65: <h3><strong>Supported hardware</strong></h3>
1.1       jasper     66:
                     67: <ul>
1.15      tb         68: <li style="list-style-type: none">
1.1       jasper     69: For a complete system component and device driver listing for this architecture,
1.20    ! tj         70: see <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-5.3/zaurus/intro.4">intro(4/zaurus)</a>.
1.1       jasper     71: <p>
                     72:
                     73: <li><strong>Tungsten|T5 / T|X / LifeDrive / Zire 72</strong>
1.2       jasper     74: <li>Intel PXA27x ARM CPU.
1.20    ! tj         75: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-5.3/com.4">com(4)</a> standard, infrared and bluetooth serial ports.
1.1       jasper     76:
1.20    ! tj         77: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-5.3/zaurus/lcd.4">lcd(4)</a> display panel, supporting <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-5.3/zaurus/wscons.4">wscons(4)</a>.
        !            78: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-5.3/wskbd.4">wskbd(4)</a> keyboard.
1.1       jasper     79:
1.20    ! tj         80: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-5.3/wd.4">wd(4)</a> on-board microdrive.
        !            81: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-5.3/ohci.4">ohci(4)</a>
        !            82: USB controller supporting most <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-5.3/usb.4">usb(4)</a> devices.
1.1       jasper     83: <!--
1.20    ! tj         84: , or acting as a <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-5.3/cdcef.4">cdcef(4)</a> 'ethernet' slave.
1.1       jasper     85: -->
1.20    ! tj         86: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-5.3/zaurus/pxammc.4">pxammc(4)</a> MMC/SD/SDIO controller.
        !            87: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-5.3/zaurus/pxagpio.4">pxagpio(4)</a> GPIO controller.
1.1       jasper     88:
                     89: <!--
                     90: <li><a
1.20    ! tj         91:     href="https://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-5.3/zaurus/apm.4">apm(4)</a>
1.1       jasper     92:     power management and suspend.
                     93: -->
                     94:
                     95:
                     96: <p>
                     97: <li>Devices that can be connected:
                     98: <ul>
1.20    ! tj         99: <li>Most USB devices, see <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-5.3/usb.4">usb(4)</a> for a list.
1.15      tb        100: </ul>
1.1       jasper    101: </ul>