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OpenBSD/palm is an experimental port of OpenBSD to the PDAs made by Palm with a
ARM PXA2xx processor.
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The current port maintainer is Marek Vasut (marex@openbsd.org). Others are definitely welcome to contribute!
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The Palm port started as a fork of the Zaurus port in March 2009 with the intention to make the system run on Palm Tungsten|T5. The project was later approved as a semestral work at the Department of Software Engineering, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University in Prague mentored by Leo Galambos.
As the project advanced, support for more Palm devices was added as well as support for various peripherals and the project outgrew the initial agreement for the semestral project.
OpenBSD/palm has been tested and is known to be working on the following models, Tungsten|T5, T|X, LifeDrive and the Zire72. There is also an initial support for Palm Tungsten|C.
Currently supported is the LCD, buttons, USB host (through a hub with external power supply), PXA SD/MMC controller and UART (not available on Zire72). On Palm LifeDrive also exists a driver for the builtin harddrive.
Additional patches that were not yet merged into the mainline tree are available here.
Snapshots will be made available from time to time, in this location as well as in a few mirrors.
Here are the OpenBSD/palm snapshot installation instructions as well.
