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1.6 bcallah 22: OpenBSD/palm was an experimental port of OpenBSD that used to run on PDAs made
23: by Palm with an ARM PXA2xx processor.
1.1 jasper 24:
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1.6 bcallah 26: There was never an official release of the OpenBSD/palm port.
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1.6 bcallah 29: <p>
30: <strong><font color="#e00000">The OpenBSD/palm port has been discontinued
31: </font></strong> after the 5.3 release.
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34: <p>
35: There is currently no one working on bringing this port back to life.
36: The source code is still available in the CVS Attic.
37: </p>
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39: <a name="toc"></a>
40: <h3><font color="#0000e0"><i>Table of contents</i></font></h3>
41: <table><tr>
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44: <li><a href="#history">History of the port</a><br>
45: <li><a href="#status">Current status</a><br>
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47: <li><a href="#hardware">Supported hardware</a><br>
48: </td><td valign="top" width="20%">
49: <li><a href="#install">Getting and installing</a><br>
50: <li><a href="#projects">Projects & bugs left to fix</a><br>
51: </td></tr></table>
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55: <a name="history"></a>
56: <h3><font color="#0000e0"><strong>History</strong></font></h3>
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1.6 bcallah 59: The Palm port was started as a fork of the Zaurus port in March 2009 with the
1.1 jasper 60: intention to make the system run on Palm Tungsten|T5. The project was later
61: approved as a semestral work at the <a href="http://www.ksi.mff.cuni.cz/en/">
62: Department of Software Engineering</a>, <a
63: href="http://www.mff.cuni.cz/toISO-8859-2.en/">Faculty
64: of Mathematics and Physics</a>, <a href="http://www.cuni.cz/UKENG-1.html">
65: Charles University in Prague</a> mentored by <a
66: href="http://www.egothor.org/~galambos/">Leo Galambos</a>.</p>
67: <p>
68: As the project advanced, support for more Palm devices was added as well as
69: support for various peripherals and the project outgrew the initial agreement
70: for the semestral project.</p>
71: <a name="status"></a>
72: <h3><font color="#0000e0"><strong>Current status</strong></font></h3>
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1.6 bcallah 75: OpenBSD/palm had been tested and was known to be working on the following
76: models: Tungsten|T5, T|X, LifeDrive and the Zire72. There was also initial
77: support for the Palm Tungsten|C.</p>
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1.6 bcallah 79: Support included the LCD, buttons, USB host (through a hub with external
1.4 ian 80: power supply), PXA SD/MMC controller and UART (not available on Zire72).
81: On Palm LifeDrive there is also a driver for the builtin hard drive.</p>
1.1 jasper 82: <h3><font color="#0000e0"><strong>Supported hardware</strong></font></h3>
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84: <ul>
85: For a complete system component and device driver listing for this architecture,
86: see <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=intro&arch=zaurus&sektion=4">intro(4/zaurus)</a>.
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89: <li><strong>Tungsten|T5 / T|X / LifeDrive / Zire 72</strong>
1.2 jasper 90: <li>Intel PXA27x ARM CPU.
1.1 jasper 91: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=com&sektion=4">com(4)</a> standard, infrared and bluetooth serial ports.
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93: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=lcd&arch=palm&sektion=4">lcd(4)</a> display panel, supporting <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=wscons&arch=zaurus&sektion=4">wscons(4)</a>.
94: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=wskbd&arch=palm&sektion=4">wskbd(4)</a> keyboard.
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96: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=wd&sektion=4">wd(4)</a> on-board microdrive.
97: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ohci&sektion=4">ohci(4)</a>
98: USB controller supporting most <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=usb&sektion=4">usb(4)</a> devices.
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102: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pxammc&sektion=4&arch=palm">pxammc(4)</a> MMC/SD/SDIO controller.
103: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pxagpio&sektion=4&arch=palm">pxagpio(4)</a> GPIO controller.
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114: <li>Devices that can be connected:
115: <ul>
116: <li>Most USB devices, see <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=usb&sektion=4">usb(4)</a> for a list.
117: </ul>
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119: <a name="projects"></a>
120: <h3><font color="#0000e0"><strong>Projects & bugs left to fix</strong></font></h3>
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122: <ul>
123: <li>Port to more models (e.g. Palm Centro).
124: <li>Support DMA on PXAMCI (not Palm specific)
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