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[Guest dahquim]

I have been looking around the Net for a while now and have LOTS of info on getting it onto a pocketPC, mostly the XDA family.

I would think that it is possible because of the variety of motorola phones that currently have linux on, 3 that i have found. Altho there is not much information on the actual hardware that these phones have.

My question is: Is it possible to get a WORKING version of Linux on a MPX200???

I know there are a lot of VERY clever people out there, and it seems to be that as long as the Kernel is made compatible. after that its just getting the sys with the hardware support.

Dahquim

[Guest squall]

no. apparently there are those who were working inthis for the original spv, but its been a dead duck for a while

[Guest dahquim]

OK

so how would you go about starting a project like this.... i have not had a look yet, and not sure if you can do it, but i suppose that you would use the smrtphone emulator??

Can you write ROMS to the emulator or not.. I would deffo like to start developing something like this, if not to distribute, then just to gain a bit of knowledge. Altho im sure quite a few people would like a Distributable version of linux.

Dahquim

[Guest sunoke]

If you're serious: take a look at http://www.handhelds.org. It is the main page for linux on the iPaq.

I can tell you that it's going to be a hell of a lot of work. But unless you get all the device's data sheets I don't think you have much of a chance.

[Guest squall]

and if you have to ask how to start you probably shouldnt!

[Guest antz]

no. apparently there are those who were working inthis for the original spv, but its been a dead duck for a while

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How far did they get?

I remember some screenshots of the thing booting were published a while back, but I suspect it was just a spoof like this one .

In theory there's no real reason why Linux can not run on an ARM chip, but I guess the userbase is not yet big enough for someone to get interested enough to make a Linux ROM for the smartphone.

Maybe when phones that have sufficient specs to run a DE and good enough bandwidth to serve as a decent ssh client come out there will be enough interest for someone to use them as remote administration tools. Running Firefox/Thunderbird without a mouse would be a little hard though... so I guess the potential user would be restricted to links/pine in an xterm.