OpenBSD/zaurus
OpenBSD/zaurus is an effort to make OpenBSD run on several PDAs of the
Sharp Zaurus family.
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The current port maintainer is Dale Rahn
(drahn@openbsd.org).
Others are definitely welcome to contribute!
Table of contents
History:
Shortly after Sharp unveiled its first Zaurus machines, some OpenBSD developers
started dreaming of running OpenBSD on it, to have the smallest possible
ssh-capable machine!
After the OpenBSD/cats was completed in order to benefit
from a good ARM development platform, work on the Zaurus hardware, initially
targetting the C-860 and C-3000 models, started in 2004.
Current status:
As the port is still in its early stages, development is pretty hectic at the
moment. Both the C-860 and the C-3000 machines boot multiuser, X11 runs
on the C-3000, and device support is being constantly improved.
Most PCMCIA/CF devices work (such as wireless/ethernet cards), as well
as host USB on the C-3000, and the keyboard and touchscreen are supported by X11.
Projects (in no particular order):
- Better C-860 support.
- Better console display support.
- Better touch screen support for X11.
- Better power management support.
Supported hardware:
At the moment, the following Zaurus models are supported:
- Zaurus SL-C760 and SL-C860
- Zaurus SL-C3000
- Serial port (suitable as console)
(com)
- LCD display panel
(lcd)
- Native C3000 keyboard
(zkbd)
- PCMCIA slot
(pxapcic)
- On-board microdrive
(wd)
- USB controller
(ohci)
USB Devices (on the C3000)
- ADMtek AN986-based USB adapters (aue),
including:
- 3com 3c460b
- Abocom UFE1000
- Abocom DSB650TX
- Accton USB320-EC
- Accton SpeedStream Ethernet
- Admtek Pegasus
- Admtek Pegasus II
- Billionton Systems USB100
- Corega FEther USB-TX
- D-Link DSB-650
- D-Link DSB-650TX
- D-Link DSB-650TX-PNA
- Elecom LD-USB
- Elsa Microlink USB2Ethernet
- I/O DATA USB ETTX
- Kingston KNU101TX
- LinkSys USB100TX
- LinkSys USB100H1
- LinkSys USB10TA
- Melco Inc. LUA-TX
- Netgear FA101
- Siemens SpeedStream USB
- Smartbridges smartNIC 2
- SMC 2202USB
- SMC EZ Connect USB
- SOHOware NUB100
- ASIX Electronics AX88172 USB adapters (axe),
including:
- Buffalo (MELCO) LUA-U2-KTX
- Corega FEther USB2-TX
- D-Link DUBE100
- LinkSys USB100M
- Netgear FA120
- Sitecom LN-029
- SnapPort USB 2.0 LAN Adapter
- System TALKS SGC-X2UL
- USB Host-to-Host Communication Devices (cdce)
- CATC USB-EL1210A-based USB adapters (cue),
including:
- CATC Netmate and Netmate II
- Belkin F5U111
- Kawasaki LSI KL5KUSB101B-based USB adapters (kue),
including:
- 3Com 3C19250
- 3Com 3c460 HomeConnect
- ADS Technologies USB-10BT
- Aox USB101
- ATen UC10T
- Corega USB-T
- D-Link DSB-650
- Entegra NET-USB-E45
- Kawasaki USB101
- LinkSys USB10T
- Netgear EA101
- Peracom USB
- SMC 2102/2104USB
- I/O Data USB-ET/T
- Davicom DM9601 USB Ethernet adapters (udav),
including:
- USB Keyboards (ukbd)
- USB Mass Storage devices, i.e., USB floppy drives and USB memory stick
controllers (umass)
- USB-USB cables (upl)
- Realtek RTL8150L based USB adapters (url),
including:
- Melco Inc. LUA-KTX
- GreenHouse GH-USB100B
- Linksys USB100M
- Wireless USB adapters
(wi)
- Acer Warplink USB-400
- Actiontec HWU01170
- Apacer Wireless Steno MB112
- Corega WLUSB-11
- I-O DATA WN-B11/USB
- Intel PRO/Wireless 2011B
- Intersil Prism 2X
- JVC MP-XP7250
- Linksys WUSB11 v3.0
- Linksys WUSB12
- Melco WLI-USB-KS11G
- Microsoft MN510
- Netgear MA111
- Siemens SpeedStream SS1022
- Syntax USB-400
PCMCIA/CF Devices (on the C3000)
- CF Mass Storage devices
- Most Compact Flash cards and CF Microdrives.
(wd)
- NE2000 compatible CF Ethernet adapters
(ne)
- Billionton Systems CFLT2-10N
- Buffalo LanCard
- Wireless CF adapters
(wi)
- Buffalo AirStation
- D-Link DCF-660W
- ELSA XI800
- Linksys WCF12
Getting and installing OpenBSD/zaurus:
There is no official OpenBSD/zaurus release yet.
Snapshots are made available from time to time, in
this location
as well as in a few
mirrors.
Here are the
OpenBSD/zaurus snapshot installation instructions
as well.
www@openbsd.org
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