I have a ton of Palm devices that I'll gladly help test with, should they become targets; including a T|X, a LifeDrive, and two Zire 72s.
On Sun, May 10, 2015 at 4:52 PM, Steph yahoo <seumeum...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > There are plenty of Palm models which could follow. I have 2 in my drawers > and wouldn't mind sending one for you to try if you'd be interested. > > ------------------------------ > *De :* Lorenzo Miori <memory...@gmail.com> > *Envoyé :* 10 mai 2015 16:49:26 UTC+02:00 > *À :* Rockbox development <rockbox-dev@cool.haxx.se> > *Objet :* Re-purpose of forgotten gadgets: palm tungsten e2 > > Ladies and gents, > > I'm proud to announce another new target, a vintage gadget from the 2005 > palmOne tungsten e2, whose test bench has been setup in a couple of hours > thanks to the union of a kernel and a solid audio software :) > > I invite you to have a look here > http://www.rockbox.org/wiki/PalmTungstenE2 > > The steps have been the following: > > 1) testing of existing stuff; bootloading a Linux kernel > 2) compilation of the newest kernel (yes, 4.x, yes hardware support out of > the box) > 3) creation of a fresh toolchain plus a shiny little rootfs (buildroot) > 4) quick & dirty hack of ypr0 target to make it runnable on this platform > (the canonical logo show-off) > > Everything but framebuffer isn't working; in the next days I will setup a > new target and writing some drivers for it. > > Specs: CPU Intel xscale pxa 255; 16mb ram; 200mhz. Sdcard storage (dunno > what is the max size perhaps around 2 gigs? Maybe Linux does a better job). > Audio out is kind of powerful but the quality made me wondering ... I'm > quite sure the problem is not in the DAC/analog section but rather in the > crappy r**l player palm os edition ! > > New possibilities: > - generic touchpad support (Linux) > - generic gpio keypad (Linux) > - ac97 audio (alsa should be fine; volume etc to implement) > - this time HW specific features at a minimum, since everything should be > Linux API in theory. Study is needed. > > Alongside in the series will be a crappybook based on a Wolfson SOC which > also supports Linux well enough for Rockbox! The big screen opens up > possibilities for video playback. USB are present etc! > > Hybrid RaaA isn't that bad, is it? Perhaps we should invent another > specific term as well.... > > Cheers & Have a nice day! > > Lorenzo > > ----- > Tshaw !! > > Steph > > Envoyé de mon aPhone >
