And Except Linux?

[nik166]

lately since i ordered my GP2x, i got interested in those SDIO things,


and quickly i found that most have NOT ANY support under linux


but, then i thought about the zodiac, as well as other PDAs, they all have drivers for SDIO GPS or other cards, and their hardware is not so different from the GP2x is it?

remembeing having seen windowsCE and others running on a modded XBOX i came to wonder, how about this GP2x, wich is supposed to be able to boot any system ?


do you think it's possible for the GP2x to receive a port of palmos and other "mobile systems"? so it would multiply it's potential and software offer !! h34r:

 

[Radek]

lately since i ordered my GP2x, i got interested in those SDIO things,


and quickly i found that most have NOT ANY support under linux


but, then i thought about the zodiac, as well as other PDAs, they all have drivers for SDIO GPS or other cards, and their hardware is not so different from the GP2x is it?

remembeing having seen windowsCE and others running on a modded XBOX i came to wonder, how about this GP2x, wich is supposed to be able to boot any system ?


do you think it's possible for the GP2x to receive a port of palmos and other "mobile systems"? so it would multiply it's potential and software offer !! h34r:

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There is no technical reason why not. However...

Would you like to pay a bigger price for the GP2x because of licensing fees of these systems?

I'm not and certainly not for a win ce, I have enough of the windows on my pc already.

For a drivers and more software they will come with a time. Keep in a mind that GP2x has some similarities to the GP32 (Arm9 and lcd screen) so porting from the latter will not be too hard. Once more people finally will get theirs GP2xs expect a things to start rolling pretty quick.

 

[Aq3of8]

I think it would be interesting to run WinCE on gp2x.

praps setting up some kind of dual boot system.

 

[nik166]

There is no technical reason why not. However...

Would you like to pay a bigger price for the GP2x because of licensing fees for these systems?

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not for the GP2x, for the system later if you want it or not

i personally wonder if it would not be an easier/faster way to exploit SDIO with all it's proprietary drivers etc than making them all working under linux , cuz after browsing SDIO GPS cards for example , i see "ppc version" and "palm version" and .. that's all :huh:


for example let's imagine the case of someone already having a PDA with tons of SDIO things (yeah that person is rich or whatever, don't mind that ) but then he thinks "hmmm th GP2x is good enough and maybe even more powerful than my PDA, i'd like to take only it on the way to make my pockets lighter"

but he can't use his SDIO devices on it, while some other system have ALL the needed drivers and software, so knowing that it would be technically possible to port one on the other, how frustrating would it be?


or also the simple case "i love this and that softwares of palm, and this and that on wince, i would love to have THEM on my GP2x sooooooo much!!" and that would be technically possible too B)

 

[oneandoneis2]

Don't forget Palm are going over to Linux.

And bear in mind: Nobody really wants SDIO on a laptop or desktop as much as they do on a palm PC. And Linux hasn't been all that big on handhelds up to now. Drivers are written when people need & want them, and up till now, they haven't really wanted them. The GP2X is likely to change that.

 

[Aimless_E]

Having used Linux as my primary OS for 8+ years I have learned that most companies "dont support linux" but that doesn't mean there isn't a driver for the device. Just means that the company wasn't responsble for the creation of the driver. This of course is changing now that Linux is becoming more main stream. But rest assured if linux developers are interested in a device enough there will be a driver for it soon enough.

 

[BWF89]

and quickly i found that most have NOT ANY support under linux

So a device that runs on Linux doesn't have any drivers that make it work with the Linux on your computer? Ironic.

 

[Cyclops]

http://www.c-guys.net/products/sd-link11b.html

Nuff said!

 

[abigsmurf]

£45 to buy Batman begins on SD...

 

[DaveC]

or also the simple case "i love this and that softwares of palm, and this and that on wince, i would love to have THEM on my GP2x sooooooo much!!" and that would be technically possible too B)

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For Palm/PPC apps the lack of a touchscreen makes difficult

 

[Sonic-NKT]

45€ for a wirless sdio card in japan. That is something i would pay!, sad thing is only, that their just 20MB of nand memory left

 

[DynaMight]

I'm sure it can be done, Hell they've even got Win95 to run on a PSP now: http://www.hacker.co.il/psp/bochs/

Xbox easily runs Linux which inturn can do windows and even MacOS (although very slowly)

Theres no real point but it's a laugh

 

[WoD]

Even if you could run PalmOS, why run an operating system designed for a fundamentally different device.

I would like to see how far you get in PalmOS as it stands now without a touch screen.

 

[Cyclops]

I'm surprised none of the Mac users have thought of mentioning *BSD

 

[judge0]

http://linuxdevices.com/news/NS9692674403.html

"Google is my friend"


looks like a few links returned some source code downloads too

A little premature to dump Linux, methinks. . . . :blink:

 

[WoD]

I'm surprised none of the Mac users have thought of mentioning *BSD

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NET BSD!

Then you can network your GP2X with your printer and start a distributed computing network to aid SETI!

 

[Blah]

and quickly i found that most have NOT ANY support under linux

So a device that runs on Linux doesn't have any drivers that make it work with the Linux on your computer? Ironic.

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I know you probably won't read this post, but you've got it wrong. They are refering to a SDIO card, not the GP2X. There doesn't have to be any GP2X drivers for Linux, because they're already there. GP2X uses standard "USB Mass Storage Device" protocol for manipulating files and stuff.

 

[Inopia]

PalmOS is a dead system, so even if you magically got it to work you wouldn't really want to anyway.
CE did happen on GP32, but wasn't released publically because of licenses.
As for SD drivers under lunix, many of those are just linux wrappers for windows drivers, and don't work non non-x86. If you want to get it working I suppose we only need find a single brand, get it to work and then just tell everybody to buy those. Works for apple

 

[nik166]

Works for apple

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that's one of the biggest reasons why i hate apple

 

[Cyclops]

Why don't people try a two second search for SDIO native linux drivers. Because they do exist. I found some in a quick search I'm sure everyone else can as well.