Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) has been playing with Linux on the Treo 650 as well. See his blog for a video and (expert level) instructions on running Illume (an Enlightenment module for mobile devices) on the Treo 650 and Neo Freerunner. Illume seems to run incredibly well given the Treo's meager specs.

I finally got around to figuring out ALSA settings for properly working phonecalls. See my blog for the ALSA details. Rod Whitby and I are going to have a look at adding support for the Treo 650 to FreeSmartPhone.org's frameworkd which is currently used for the Openmoko Linux phones.

During last months Marek and Sergey have made big efforts in pushing the results of almost 3 years' work upstream through ARM Linux tree. It seems that very soon we will see several more devices in vanilla.

However, there is small moment that I'd like to clarify now, when things are not yet fixed finally - mach-types for Palms. I did a small analysis of current mach-types file in ARM Linux tree and have found something that looks like deficiency to me. Here is what I see and what I'd like to see (sorry for poor formatting but I was not able to found how to make tables here):

I just recently added firmware extraction to cocoboot (to get palmtx wifi FW, just tap on the Dump Marvell WiFi Firmware in the pulldown menu). For now it works probably only on palmtx. Thanks to kEdAR, you can download the new version here http://kedar.palmlinux.cz/test/cocoboot-git20080702.prc

(btw. someone feels like fixing prc-tools for amd64, newer gcc etc. ? maybe you can reuse your wifi bounty for that ;-) )

With palmtx being slowly moved towards mainline, I gave a try to libertas driver. With little tweak, I was able to create ad-hoc network between palmld (with palmos) and palmtx (with linux).

What now? firmware loader from if_cs.c doesnt work so you have to enable wifi in palmos and then boot, anyone feels like fixing it?

Photos follow:

Just found out something interesting - I backported the libertas driver in mainline to -hh20, made some tweaks etc. . Well ... with wifi enabled in palmos, it is possible to set the card to ad-hoc networking in linux, assign essid and the device can be then seen by others ... but it crashes kernel when you connect to it, which might also be a result of my fast backporting of lbs driver .... well if anyone feels like hacking on it, I will put the patch and some photos here later.

Stepan (aka step2back) has finally finished his great work of porting hackndev.com and old.hackndev.com to new django-based code. That means things would be better indexed, more fast and more shiny.

Feel free to test it at http://dcms.hackndev.com. Final move would be in ~1 week when all tests would be over.

Known issues: some posts might be messing, we're working on it.

The title is selfexplaining. Code cleanup started, palmtc base support is already in -hh.

PalmTT5 is now oficially dropped by Hack&Dev, all palmtt5 related patches now go to handhelds.org . Update: same goes for PalmLD.

I've just got an answer to email dated September previous year. It seems that Winbond can now share all the specs of TT3's W86L488Y SD/MMC/SDIO reader. Now we can fully support SD and SDIO including palm SDIO wi-fi adapter!