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RE: Palm - Handspring
- To: "'Trenton D. Adams'" <tadams at extremeeng dot com>, 'Jonathan Larmour' <jlarmour at redhat dot com>
- Subject: RE: [ECOS] Palm - Handspring
- From: Fabrice Gautier <Fabrice_Gautier at sdesigns dot com>
- Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2001 19:03:37 -0700
- Cc: 'eCos Discussion' <ecos-discuss at sourceware dot cygnus dot com>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Trenton D. Adams [mailto:tadams@extremeeng.com]
> Subject: RE: [ECOS] Palm - Handspring
>
>
> I just bought a Handspring so I was kind of thinking of doing it. It
> would probably take too much of my "spare" time to be worth while
> though! I wouldn't know where to start either. Handspring
> does seem to
> have quite a bit of information on their website about programming
> though. I haven't checked it out extensively yet though.
> They use GCC
> from what I've seen so it would work well with an eCos port.
>
> It would be fun to do if anything. It would also give people
> out there
> a cheaper way of trying out some embedded development.
> Handspring/palm
> are way cheaper than iPaq.
Handspring website also says that the OS is hardwired in ROM, and there is
no flash. So it could prove difficult to boot anything but their OS, maybe
you can port eCos as a synthetic target on top of palmOS but that doesn't
seem worthy... I guess the programming information they gave is about
applications not system.
Don't know for Palm, should be quite the same...
--
Fabrice Gautier
Software Engineer, Sigma Designs
Fabrice_Gautier@sdesigns.com