Nokia 770 support?
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Andrew Hodgkinson (6)
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Garry Taylor (57)
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OK, it's a big ask, but what would it take to get RISC OS running on something like the Nokia 770? I'm not that familiar with the hardware, or the internals of RISC OS, but it's cheap, has a 800x480 screen, and would seem to otherwise be a nice machine to run RISC OS on. Comparing RISC OS to Mac OS X/Vista is daunting, but compare it to WinCE, Embeddded Linux, Symbian, things don't seem so bad. Plus, it's easier to get someone to use a palmtop using a wierd OS alongside their normal desktop, more difficult to get them to change desktops... |
Steve Revill (20)
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Garry Taylor (57) wrote: > OK, it's a big ask, but what would it take to get RISC OS running on > something like the Nokia 770? I'm not that familiar with the hardware, > or the internals of RISC OS, but it's cheap, has a 800x480 screen, and > would seem to otherwise be a nice machine to run RISC OS on. OK, I've had a /very/ quick Google and it looks like it has 128MB of flash and an ARM926TEJ CPU which (and this is essential for RISC OS) does have an MMU so no super-obvious show-stoppers there. Given that RISC OS could probably run on that kind of architecture (I stand to be corrected), I'd make a finger-in-the-air guess that, given the right couple of people, you could get RISC OS working at a basic level (command line) in a couple of weeks and to the desktop - working pretty reliably - in maybe a month. Actually, it would probably take longer than that because initial board bring-up would be hard without tools like JTAG and ARM MultiICE (I'd be willing to bet there are no connectors for that sort of thing). Also, that's some very specific people working full time. They'd need to be paid for that kind of thing or they would want to have a really good reason to do it. |
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Garry Taylor (57)
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Steve Revill (20) wrote: > Garry Taylor (57) wrote: >> OK, it's a big ask, but what would it take to get RISC OS running on >> something like the Nokia 770? I'm not that familiar with the hardware, >> or the internals of RISC OS, but it's cheap, has a 800x480 screen, and >> would seem to otherwise be a nice machine to run RISC OS on. > > OK, I've had a /very/ quick Google and it looks like it has 128MB of > flash and an ARM926TEJ CPU which (and this is essential for RISC OS) > does have an MMU so no super-obvious show-stoppers there. That's what I thought, I don't know much about the low-level requirements of RISC OS, but I assumed an MMU would be mandatory. > > Given that RISC OS could probably run on that kind of architecture (I > stand to be corrected), I'd make a finger-in-the-air guess that, given > the right couple of people, you could get RISC OS working at a basic > level (command line) in a couple of weeks and to the desktop - working > pretty reliably - in maybe a month. > > Actually, it would probably take longer than that because initial board > bring-up would be hard without tools like JTAG and ARM MultiICE (I'd be > willing to bet there are no connectors for that sort of thing). > > Also, that's some very specific people working full time. They'd need to > be paid for that kind of thing or they would want to have a really good > reason to do it. I see, unfortunatly I don't have anything like the low-level programming experience to work on something like that, but I'd definitely commit to buying a 770 with RISC OS, if (say) £100 were added to the price for the privilege of running RISC OS. Your post about the window borders would be a good fit for this device too, get a bit of screen space back. Incidentally, do you think there are more appropriate portable devices to port to, maybe iPaq, the Sharp linux PDAs with keyboards? |
