Welcome to Hack&Dev

This project aims to bring usable Linux environment to handhelds that run Palm OS. Get started running Linux on your PDA or smartphone by downloading a bootpack!

Moving again

As VPSlink has been sold to some other company, and the new hoster cannot do such simple thing as preserve acls while moving VPS image over, I feel they cannot be good at any web hosting.

Hack&Dev servers including hackndev.com, hackndev.org, supporting projects, git and jabber are going to be moved to my server in Europe in next week, possibly including some short downtimes.

Another HW donation from Desertdog

There was not much news lately. Sorry for that, I'm pretty occupied with my son and Marex is actively working on different HW. As you could read, Marex became maintainer for U-boot/PXA. He tried to create U-Boot for LifeDrive to create Linux-only device, but LifeDrive got unfortunatelly bricked. It will be hopefully used for tracing USB2, which is still missing on LD.

Desertdog sent us another 4 Treos Treo650 CDMA, Treo 700wx, Treo 700p and Treo 800w. Thanks! I hope I can get them to similar status as Treo 680, but I can't promis it will be soon. Any help in this way would be appreciated.

Downtimes and such

We had a downtime today due to power failure in VPSLink's datacenter. While the problem lasted (~4 hours) both hackndev.com nameservers were inaccessible. As I find such issue in-acceptable, I'm planning to move one of the servers to NY datacenter.

Call for logs

I would like to ask you for logs for Palm Treo 755p, Palm Centro (CDMA) and possibly other Palm smartphones with PalmOS and PXA processor (Treo 600 and older doesn't have it, I don't need Treo 650 GSM). If you're interested in spending some time for it, read further.

HW donation from Wayne State University, in Detroit

I'm glad to say that Wayne State University, in Detroit give us 5x Palm TX with hard case, 5x IR keyboards and 7x 1gb SD cards as HW donation!
This will hopefully help Marex to create PalmTX flash driver, me to keep kernel builds up-to-date and tested and miska to provide fine userspace builds.

Thanks natwrkz and notone70 for your support!

Palm Tungsten|C WiFi

Hi, I've finally figured out how the WiFi in PalmTC actually is wired. Both me and Alex 'BobOfDoom' Osborne were partly right about it, but we both missed what the other had. Generally combining it into one driver resulted into a working WiFi ;-) . Patch after break.

What is happening right now, what will be next

If you watch these pages from time to time, you probably noticed that releases are outdated, not much usable for daily use and this project seems in this way dead. So what is going on?

Unfortunately, lot of developers are no longer active in Linux4Palm project. Yes, iPhone is spreading like disease - why hack old device when you can buy nice new toy where UNIX is already present?

Our answer is of course - because it's fun! Today - a day after Linux Expo event we're glad to say that many people are still interested in what we're doing. Maybe some of Linux Expo visitors are just reading this page. If so welcome, join, read, learn and have fun with us.

Git repository layout changes

As Hack&Dev.com is still the primary project being hosted on the server I'm posting this (mostly administrational) notice here.

The current git repository layout is going to be changed soon, as I no longer like the idea of "one group to rule them all" layout. The new layout will be managed by gitosis (and will work pretty much like github does).

Good points:
- Better ownership/permission handling
- Centralised storage for repositories (no need to have private repos in your ~/)
- Optional r/o (git-daemon) and gitweb access
- Optional push-on-commit to remote (github?) repos

PalmT|T3, T|C, T|E2: Suspend-to-mem without reflashing bootloader (UPDATED #2)

It's now possible to use suspend-to-mem without reflashing FlashROM on Palm Tungsten T3. How it's done after the break. Also, PalmTC and PalmTE2 have similar loaders so it might not take too long to see suspend on them as well.

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