[OpenBSD]

OpenBSD/palm

OpenBSD/palm was an experimental port of OpenBSD that used to run on PDAs made by Palm with an ARM PXA2xx processor.

There was never an official release of the OpenBSD/palm port.

The OpenBSD/palm port was discontinued after the 5.3 release.

There is currently no one working on bringing this port back to life. The source code is still available in the CVS Attic.

Table of contents

  • History of the port
  • Current status
  • Supported hardware
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  • Getting and installing

    • History

    The Palm port was started as a fork of the Zaurus port in March 2009 with the intention to make the system run on Palm Tungsten|T5. The project was later approved as a semestral work at the Department of Software Engineering, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University in Prague mentored by Leo Galambos.

    As the project advanced, support for more Palm devices was added as well as support for various peripherals and the project outgrew the initial agreement for the semestral project.

    Current status

    OpenBSD/palm had been tested and was known to be working on the following models: Tungsten|T5, T|X, LifeDrive and the Zire72. There was also initial support for the Palm Tungsten|C.

    Support included the LCD, buttons, USB host (through a hub with external power supply), PXA SD/MMC controller and UART (not available on Zire72). On Palm LifeDrive there is also a driver for the builtin hard drive.

    Supported hardware

  • Devices that can be connected: