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I was part of a project that helped bring a usable Linux distribution on this line of palmtops -- JLime (you can find references on the net, but the main site h
by deuill 7y ago
I was part of a project that helped bring a usable Linux distribution on this line of palmtops -- JLime (you can find references on the net, but the main site has since gone dark). This includes the 620LX, 660LX, 680 and 690 (based on SH-3 processors), as well as the 710 and 720 (based on ARM processors).
I personally had the 690, which was suprisingly usable (and probably still is), even with its 133MHz CPU and 32MB of RAM. Finding and porting software was, even in ~2006, especially hard, given the hardware constraints and unique screen aspect ratio (640x240 resolution).
I still have the page for the distribution up here[0], and a software repository set up here[1], in case the author (if they see this) or anyone else that has any of these machines stashed away is feeling adventurous...
[0]: https://deuill.org/code/jlime-vargtass/ https://deuill.org/code/jlime-vargtass/
[1]: https://repository.deuill.org/hp6xx/vargtass/ https://repository.deuill.org/hp6xx/vargtass/
- mschuster91 7y agoThanks, I'll have a dig in the basement then I guess! Is the bootloader code open source?
- deuill 7y agoIndeed it is/was, though I cannot seem to find an original copy on the internet, so I uploaded to the repository[0]. I'm not sure what the requisite toolchain is, though. [0]: https://repository.deuill.org/hp6xx/misc/jshlo-1.1.0-CE-2.11.tar.xz https://repository.deuill.org/hp6xx/misc/jshlo-1.1.0-CE-2.11...
- mschuster91 7y agoToolchain probably is Visual Studio 6 with the Windows CE SDK.
- znpy 7y agoHey, I have used JLime on my Jornada 728 back in the day, thank you for your work!
- InAnEmergency 7y ago(Author here) I did spend quite a bit of time on your site, linked sites, and webarchive. The files on your site did not work out of the box for me. I did eventually get a combination of kernel and configuration that kind of worked, but I think the CompactFlash card was too big. It stalled out on hard drive interrupts.
- deuill 7y agoAh, that's too bad! AFAIR zrafa's site[0] was the place to go for bootloader/kernel files specific to the 620LX/660LX, but the userland should work on any 6xx series. [0]: https://web.archive.org/web/20150626030407/http://fz.hobby-site.org/hp660lx/jlime-stable/ https://web.archive.org/web/20150626030407/http://fz.hobby-s...