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Hi all,
I ask this question cuz I counldn't find enough information about How to install Linux on my PPC.
My ppc is: I-teq X-bond like as Gigabyte gsmart i. with 64MB ROM.
Is there any linux ROM distribution for my ppc? or general linux ROM distribution for PPCs?
Thanks in advance.
Pedram
The reason you could not find information is because there isn't much of it to be found.
Unfortunately, Linux for PPC is in its infancy. The main problem is the drivers - they all need to be reverse engineered and there is no help from the OEMs as they designed this things to only work with MS crap and seem to have no interest in releasing drivers or specifications.
Official reason: Because you can not mess with the OS the device is more stable and secure.
Real reason: If you need to by new phone to get new OS we make more $$$ and so does MS.
As far as I heard there is a half decent version for some iPaq model, and there is version for some HTC devices (check WiKi) but all it does is boot up: no drivers even for touch screen, no graphical interface, no apps.
Thnx levelnum.
I think if linux developers I mean open source world focus on handheld devices they can publish good distribution as desktop or laptop PCs. Today they are very powerful in reverse engineering, .NET Framework in Linux named MONO is one of these reverse engineering issues.
I believe that Linux is much more customizable that WM, especially for XDA-developers that make interesting works on WM. And also it doesn't have copyright restriction as WM has. So may be it makes many progress in world of handheld devices.
Oddly enough I was looking for Linux on Smartphone info yesterday as I've got an Alpine I'd like to be able to do something interesting with.
Demand for something like this is going to be a bit odd - by definition anyone who finds this site, let alone opens an account and posts, is going to be interested in pushing the boundaries of their device but the vast majority of WM device users are going to be in the "don't care how it works as long as it does" group.
Also, I reckon a lot of Linux dev types aren't even going to look at the device, it will never occur to them to buy one because it's sold as a Windows Mobile device, and hence isn't going to be near their installation of the hacker mentality. Without a critical mass of people who can develop in/with Linux it's always going to be a struggle.
problem is the program base
all current wm programs unless they are .net
would not run under linux on our pda's
new ones would be required to be written
or ported or....
The Nokia Internet Tablet runs on a version of Linux with a pretty robust set of applications, and this device uses an ARM processor which should be pretty friendly with regard to 'porting'.
But you'd still be stuck without a telephone application.
You can find some information here:
http://handhelds.org/moin/moin.cgi/HaRET
http://www.handhelds.org/
Oddly enough I was looking for Linux on Smartphone info yesterday as I've got an Alpine I'd like to be able to do something interesting with.
Demand for something like this is going to be a bit odd - by definition anyone who finds this site, let alone opens an account and posts, is going to be interested in pushing the boundaries of their device but the vast majority of WM device users are going to be in the "don't care how it works as long as it does" group.
Also, I reckon a lot of Linux dev types aren't even going to look at the device, it will never occur to them to buy one because it's sold as a Windows Mobile device, and hence isn't going to be near their installation of the hacker mentality. Without a critical mass of people who can develop in/with Linux it's always going to be a struggle.
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May be! as you said it is Windows mobile device and linux lovers aren't going around of it. but I think they are so curious than it.
problem is the program base
all current wm programs unless they are .net
would not run under linux on our pda's
new ones would be required to be written
or ported or....
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I do think so. since I in previous post I mentioned that .NET framework available in linux. so many of windows program can run on it.
You can find some information here:
http://handhelds.org/moin/moin.cgi/HaRET
http://www.handhelds.org/
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Hart (Reverse engineering tool for wm hardware) was interesting tool.
yeah but due to limitations and slowness only the minority of applications on windows mobile are made in .net :S
i want this one
http://www.openmoko.com/press/index.html
Regards,
Jason
Rudegar said:
problem is the program base
all current wm programs unless they are .net
would not run under linux on our pda's
new ones would be required to be written
or ported or....
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This is not a real problem. If you want to use a particular program from WM that is a problem but why you would do that? There is very large program base for desktop Linux (many of them also exist for desktop Windows) which could be very easily ported to a handheld platform with ARM processor. If you ever looked up how many qualitative programs do exist for Japanese Linux handhelds...
Wexx said:
This is not a real problem. If you want to use a particular program from WM that is a problem but why you would do that? There is very large program base for desktop Linux (many of them also exist for desktop Windows) which could be very easily ported to a handheld platform with ARM processor. If you ever looked up how many qualitative programs do exist for Japanese Linux handhelds...
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Thats one of the things that is grate about open source software - you don't even have to depend on the original developer to find the time / will to port it. Anyone with the programing knowledge can.
I've just successfully upgraded my UK Orange SPV M700 to AX3L's WM6 ROM, and enjoying it. However, the relative ease of re-writing a ROM has led me to other questions of a more speculative nature.
I'd like forum members to know that I am not a genius in the mobile OS field, so apologies if my enquiry is 'common knowledge' so to speak, and that my question is purely speculative. I wouldn't be interested in carrying out the modifications to my own handset.
My question is this:
Given the relative ease of modifying and/or installing a new ROM on a Windows Mobile handset, would it be possible to install a non native OS onto a Windows Mobile handset. For instance, the UIQ version of Symbian, used on the P series handsets from SE, and perhaps installing Symbian Series 60 3rd Edition on non touchscreen handsets?
an os are binary files made for the cpu in the device
for an os to be able to boot
the bootloader have to be compatible with the format of the rom
and the rom have to be native binary cpu
and some drivers are required to be present for the device to boot at all
nobody i know off have 100% transfered a rom from one device to another
core kernel and driver related things have to be kept for the device to boot
upgrading a rom to another rom for the same htc device type is easy
upgrading a device to another and newer version of the os but keeping the core of the os and only add the shell and program changes is alot more work for the rom maker
To correct my previous post, Im not sure if using Windows Mobile device to run Symbian UIQ could be considered 'upgrade' more like 'sidestepping' ;-)
I understand the comments about specific programming for the device CPU. But couldn't a software workaround bypass this?
I think the same could be said for Mac and PC. In theory, you could use a G5 to run Windows (not Boot Camp). By just using the physical hardware of RAM, Hard drive and BIOS, (and of course, a CPU workaround, maybe not so much a problem with the newer Intel Macs) surely you could format the Mac structure enough to run Windows XP, and vice versa. And you could surely apply the same theory to a Pocket PC. IF you 'format' the system enough, so its basically just an empty shell, or a blank canvas if u will, you could use it for pretty much anything.
If an iPod can run a version of Linux and even Doom, then, if you so wished and had the inclination to do so, it could run the Creative Zen (or even Zune!) software.
All of these speculative suggestions are of course subject to the physical human interface. But then, the IT guy at work runs a Mac keyboard and mouse on a Dell PC at work..
ianrendall said:
To correct my previous post, Im not sure if using Windows Mobile device to run Symbian UIQ could be considered 'upgrade' more like 'sidestepping' ;-)
I understand the comments about specific programming for the device CPU. But couldn't a software workaround bypass this?
I think the same could be said for Mac and PC. In theory, you could use a G5 to run Windows (not Boot Camp). By just using the physical hardware of RAM, Hard drive and BIOS, (and of course, a CPU workaround, maybe not so much a problem with the newer Intel Macs) surely you could format the Mac structure enough to run Windows XP, and vice versa. And you could surely apply the same theory to a Pocket PC. IF you 'format' the system enough, so its basically just an empty shell, or a blank canvas if u will, you could use it for pretty much anything.
If an iPod can run a version of Linux and even Doom, then, if you so wished and had the inclination to do so, it could run the Creative Zen (or even Zune!) software.
All of these speculative suggestions are of course subject to the physical human interface. But then, the IT guy at work runs a Mac keyboard and mouse on a Dell PC at work..
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well, if you could compile the os for the type of chip in use, write all the drivers , you could in theory get it to work....
there was a project bsck in '05 to run win 95 and 98 on a ppc and they succeded in that
and then we ave linux releases for some ppcs
also got it from some macosX developers that the system being based
on a BSD kernel which was more mature on x86 then on motorola platform
the whole macosX was first developed on pc's but never released
what you ask could be don but it would most likely time more manhours then it would be worth
and could also result in a law suit from the symbian people
you're the only person i've seen to request this i've seen so far
maybe an emulator would be the way to handle it
I'm not actually interested in doing any of this, as you say, it would be pretty pointless and legally troublesome. Just interested in the science of it.
Hi to everytody,
This is the firs time I write in this forum, but there is a long time ago that i read all your interesting and wise posts
I have recently changed my pda for a nokia n770, and I would like to know if is possible to make this device work under windows mobile, 'cos linux does not like me too much.
Is there any available rom for this device?
If so, how can I install it?
Many thanks in advance, and my congratulations for you all.
Regards.
CArlos
Absolutlely impossible
No drivers, no software - nothing.
Really?
But if I have seen in You Tube a video where this machine is running under windows xp....
And is there no way to load in any other rom from another pda?
many thanks and I apologize if I have said any nonsense... (my aknowledgements are very limited in this matter)
regards.
dunno about xp - but anyway it is much more possible than n770 running Windows Mobile
it was prob a nokia running remote desktop software
Don't believe everything you see on uTube.
As Redugar suggested it could have been remote terminal software, or a skin that made the device resemble XP or a fake video all together.
According to PC Magazine this device has an OMAP processor (official Nokia site does not provide that detail) so in theory it is similar to our phones.
But if you have truly read this site before you would know that this was asked and discussed many times: Window Mobile can not be installed on a device that was not designed for it.
There must be at least one original version of WM specifically made by the manufacturer for that device.
Only from that it might be possible to make upgrades but not create a version from scratch.
ok,
I read some time ago something regarding the prebootloader system..., that this kind of devices that runs under linux does not have (or it's different)... is this certain?
Anyway, I thought that somebody in this forum might be developed a tool to load this room, but in any case, I repeat that I'm just learning about this devices... in fact is my first one mobile pc running linux...
Many thanks.
i dont belive that any nokia phone run linux at all their use their own os called symbian
Rudegar said:
i dont belive that any nokia phone run linux at all their use their own os called symbian
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Believe it That's their new safety line off Symbian without stepping into WM.
http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS5409534614.html
While they may have the most say in Symbian, but I won't say it is 'their own OS'
Anyway, it is a pity that all these phone companies with Linux OS doesn't seems to be doing much to join forces in any other way. Motorola has some good histroy with their Linux OS.. and yet this Nokia is doing things all their own way.. which well, I'm not sure how that will divide the public developers. Anyway, I had a look at this N770.. it is not that impressive.
"but I won't say it is 'their own OS' "
yeah it started up as a group of mobil companys but dident
everybody else leave the group ?
Rudegar said:
"but I won't say it is 'their own OS' "
yeah it started up as a group of mobil companys but dident
everybody else leave the group ?
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Hmmm.. now you mentioned.. it seems quite true.. now, as far I can think of, for non Nokia phones, only SonyE's P9xx series is using it, huh?
İt says;
Software:
Operating system -- Internet Tablet 2005 software edition
İt s not talkin about linux, symbian possible by the way Rom upgrade impossible on this device because it cant be connect on active syn, and I dont think so that it has bootloader menu to flash WM6..
Nokia n770 (and n800) runs Maemo. For more info check out: http://maemo.org/.
The nokia n770/800 isnt a pda but an internet tablet.
I would love to see Android run on my BA
Have a look here for a video demo http://friends.e2b.org/Noel/blog/61/
Lets wait and see if it will ever work on it.
I dont like it, it looks too much like MAC and I hate MAC's
i00n said:
I dont like it, it looks too much like MAC and I hate MAC's
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I do not use a MAC, never have, and will not in any near future, but why do you hate MAC's?
And yes.. It's a a bit off topic..
PS. Never say never :-/
Well I rly dont like MAC interface and the system look is too much eye-candy :/
i00n said:
Well I rly dont like MAC interface and the system look is too much eye-candy :/
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I see.. Now lets really hope that you will never use Vista than.
Ill use it when sp2 or sp3 will come or when newest programs wich I would like to use would only run on Vista. Ehhh why halo 2 is for Vista ((( I dont want Vista yet
i00n said:
Ill use it when sp2 or sp3 will come or when newest programs wich I would like to use would only run on Vista. Ehhh why halo 2 is for Vista ((( I dont want Vista yet
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Last thing I say about this off topic here.
Vista is even more eye-candy, so your theory about MAC and it being "too much eye-candy" does not really stand!
OT: Vista, Halo 2, forced 'upgrades'
i00n said:
Ill use it when sp2 or sp3 will come or when newest programs wich I would like to use would only run on Vista. Ehhh why halo 2 is for Vista ((( I dont want Vista yet
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Why is it for vista only? Because Microsoft wants you to buy their software, and if they can make it so the stuff you want to use is vista only, all the better for them.
As for Halo 2, there are ways to make it run under XP, and I can vouch for the fact that they do work.
How to do it is an exercise for the reader.
And don't hate an environment/OS unless you have actually used it, otherwise you come across as another of the drooling fanboys.
I've used both and I get more work done on a Mac than I do on Windows.
I worked for about year on MACs when I was in school when I wanted to get a techinc status. Their interface does not suit me, I always found it horrible somehow please dont hate me for that
i00n said:
I worked for about year on MACs when I was in school when I wanted to get a techinc status. Their interface does not suit me, I always found it horrible somehow please dont hate me for that
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But how long ago was that? OS 10 has about as much in common with os 7/8/9 as XP has in common with WfW 3.11
Regardless, I was using 7/8/9 as well and did get more work done.
If the UI is not something you like, then you don't like it, no problems there. I'm not going to try to convert anyone (I use XP, OS 10, and Linux), nor am I going to hate anyone over it.
However, I do find your reasoning (too much eye candy) flawed considering vista tries to outdo Apple on the eye candy thing.
Oh, BTW, it's typed Mac. When you do the MAC thing, I immediately think Media Access Control address.
I work in software packaging... and I use VMWare a lot for different builds etc.
I was wondering if there was such an application for mobile phones. like VMWARE that I could test ROMs on etc. before putting onto my phone?
Apologies if posted in the wrong spot etc.
Regards.
That WOULD be a useful tool, such as an emulator??
Dont the windows mobile 6 sdk tools come with this sort of thing ? But I dont know if u can load a rom from here into it. But I know it comes with a base rom to use for testing, if your developing with Visual Studio or something.
twist said:
Dont the windows mobile 6 sdk tools come with this sort of thing ? But I dont know if u can load a rom from here into it. But I know it comes with a base rom to use for testing, if your developing with Visual Studio or something.
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Correct, the emulator bundled with the SDK is only for testing programs which will run on it.
What we want is a virtual device which will act just like the hermes hardware, that way we can test unbricking techiques etc...
Something like this would indeed be a huge step for developers and cooks.
VM for WM
All you need are the environmental configuration details, ie the parameters that for the sys config and build out the vmx file.
There's no way you'd get assistance from VMware on this, ut if you think about it there are what ... 12 pre-set environments in VM-WK6?
I reckon if you debug one of these, hack away at the profile, RAM, cpu requirements (cycles, Hz, etc, etc) then you are most of the way there.
There is only a finite amount of environmental configurations, it's about controlling those.
Have a look at the VMware site, go to virtual appliances, and see how people have built the base out on some of the simpler appliances
http://mobiledevdesign.com/software_design/open-kernel-labs-okl4-software-0521/
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http://mobiledevdesign.com/software_design/open-kernel-labs-okl4-software-0521/
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That's not quite with the topic here. From what I got out of that is they are working on running 2 operating systems on 1 phone. Not something like a hermes emulator.