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Zaurus - Other distros support / Greetings and my new project!
« on: Today at 01:41:49 pm »
Hi everyone,
I’m a technician/developer that specializes in bringing old handhelds and phones back to life.
I got into Zaurii about a month ago with restoring an SL-5500 (worked for a while, now having battery issues).
My idea has been to put my vintage tech collection on the internet along with archives of the files I’ve data hoarded.
This project includes a working package feed for the Zaurus and should be completed in about a month with copies of all the ROMs that were available at least for the SL-5500 if not other models.
I’m also working on a very similar project on another handheld with the same Xscale processor, the Psion Netbook Pro.
We were able to conclude a worldwide hunt for a special beta of a Linux distro developed for the Psion by the Psion company itself, PsionLX, which has disappeared from the Internet and whose GUI has never been displayed on the internet before.
The PsionLX beta is unfinished and it is running off a specific version of OpenEmbedded from the early 2000s as a base. I am planning to try to refine and finish this beta and put it on Linux kernel 3.2.9, which was the last and most recent kernel for this device.
Given this forum and its closeness to OpenEmbedded, and the CPU similarities, I wanted to ask if anyone here happens to have any archives of the armv5te package feeds from OpenEmbedded stashed away somewhere.
I had tried to use a mirror provided by Gumstix for their SBCs but it’s the wrong version and creates a segmentation fault.
Really happy to be here, I tried for a literal month to get an account registered to post on here and help out here.
Thanks!
I’m a technician/developer that specializes in bringing old handhelds and phones back to life.
I got into Zaurii about a month ago with restoring an SL-5500 (worked for a while, now having battery issues).
My idea has been to put my vintage tech collection on the internet along with archives of the files I’ve data hoarded.
This project includes a working package feed for the Zaurus and should be completed in about a month with copies of all the ROMs that were available at least for the SL-5500 if not other models.
I’m also working on a very similar project on another handheld with the same Xscale processor, the Psion Netbook Pro.
We were able to conclude a worldwide hunt for a special beta of a Linux distro developed for the Psion by the Psion company itself, PsionLX, which has disappeared from the Internet and whose GUI has never been displayed on the internet before.
The PsionLX beta is unfinished and it is running off a specific version of OpenEmbedded from the early 2000s as a base. I am planning to try to refine and finish this beta and put it on Linux kernel 3.2.9, which was the last and most recent kernel for this device.
Given this forum and its closeness to OpenEmbedded, and the CPU similarities, I wanted to ask if anyone here happens to have any archives of the armv5te package feeds from OpenEmbedded stashed away somewhere.
I had tried to use a mirror provided by Gumstix for their SBCs but it’s the wrong version and creates a segmentation fault.
Really happy to be here, I tried for a literal month to get an account registered to post on here and help out here.
Thanks!