From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: presotto@plan9.bell-labs.com To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <20010328140229.1C484199C0@mail.cse.psu.edu> Subject: [9fans] compaq h3650 (bitsy) port Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 09:02:26 -0500 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 75dd84a6-eac9-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 It's missing a document describing how to get Plan 9 on the machine and a read/write file system for the flash. I'm writing the former and brucee has written the latter (but for the new 9P2000 protocol so I have to do a little conversion before I send it out. There'll be an update in a few days with both of these. As jmk said, we had internal (people scheduling) issues here that determined when the distribution got out so we'll dribble a few more things out over the next week or so. If any one is wondering, what you get with the bitsy port is: 1) a full plan 9 on the PDA 2) an emulated keyboard and a graffiti-like, one drawn character at a time, pen area 3) working speaker and headphone jack 4) a compressed read-only flash file system whose 5) a wavelan interface 6) a serial driver We have some power management (ilde mode) but we haven't finished putting the machine into sleep mode so that you can have a soft power-off. Right now you have to do a hard power off using the little dip switch accessible through a port in the bottom. That switch is only meant to disconnect the battery for shipping and can't be used forever, it'll break. In short it still has a ways to go before it gets out of toy stage. We'll get the power management and journaling flash file system out soon. What we're hoping we'll get back are more comm pcmcia devices for it so that it can become more useful. We also need more people playing with interfaces to make it easier to use. I've been using it as a portable laptop which kinda strains both my eyes and fingers. Rob's control(2) library should provide enough widgets to get some better UI's working (not just for the bitsy).