Re: [9fans] Bitsy hardware docs.

["Pjotr Kourzanov" <kourzano@natlab.research.philips.com>]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Digby Tarvin" <digbyt@acm.org>
Newsgroups: comp.os.plan9
Sent: Saturday 22 September 2001 3:48
Subject: Re: [9fans] Bitsy hardware docs.


> Pjotr Kourzanov:
> > 
> >   So, there is Plan9 port for StrongARM? I'm surprised...
> >
> The 3rd edition docs lists ARM7500FE and Strongarm SA1 core machines
> amoungst those supported by the compiler, so I guess it was used on
> other ARM based machines before the iPAQ.

    This means you'll have to compile everything, and port the drivers. Sure,
given some spare time and access to Linux sources that might prove easy.
 
> An Inferno port also seems to be available

   That's great! The very first thing I'll do when I have spare time is to play
with that a little. Don't know whether I'll venture into Plan9 itself, but its
nice to have Inferno running on Linux as well.

> > > Can anyone give me some pointers on where to look for a nice
> > > system programmers overview of the beast?
> > >
> > 
> >     Try www.handhelds.org, they have lotsa links and even 3 Linux
> > distributions for that animal :-)
> 
> Thanks. That was indeed a useful site.
> 
> An Inferno port also seems to be available, which is encouraging both
> because I can run most interesting OSs on the machine, and also because
> it implies some pretty smart people have decided the hardware is interesting
> enough to have put in the effort to port to it.

    Yeah, that was the reason I bought iPAQ and not Palm. You just have much more
flexibility, that is, besides the computing power of a little outdated desktop.

> I certainly wasn't excited by what the machine seemed to have to offer
> as a WinCE handheld, and doubt I would have considered it were it not
> for the 3rd party OSs available. Makes me wonder how much of the price
> I paid went to Microsoft for software I will never use :-/
> Regards,
> DigbyT
> -- 
> Digby R. S. Tarvin                                              digbyt@acm.org
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