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OpenMoko on a Palm TX

April 20th, 2007 by Ryan

OpenMoko Linux Palm TXThe enterprising Palm hardware hackers at Hack&Dev have recently had some sucess in getting a current build of OpenMoko to run on a Palm TX and have posted a series of pictures and some instructions.

I managed to run and adapt OpenMoko on PalmTX. It is built using the good-old OpenEmbedded, so using a Palm kernel (and modules, of course) and a root image from http://buildhost.openmoko.org/ , you can run OpenMoko on Palm.


OpenMoko isn’t going to replace the Palm OS on the TX anytime soon as there are a number of issues and incompatibilities. It is primarily designed for a 640×480 screen, so a lot of work had to be done to scale it down to the TX’s 480×320 resolution and some elements do not make the transition well. The other main issue is that the OpenMoko software is still in its very early stages and much of it is not even functional yet.

via Palm Infocenter

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