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Linux on AAEC-2000 - Running Linux on Agilent's AAEC-2000 System On a Chip (SOC)

Status (20 August 2001)

• The following aaec2000/aaed2000 hardware is supported: keyboard, LCD, touch screen screen.
• If you load a ramdisk (change file a2kboot.c in a2kboot v. 1.3 for manual loading), you can logon and perform some basic commands.
• I'm looking into getting one of the IPAQ cramfs images to work on the aaed2000. This will probably require some tweaks in the framebuffer driver (to support mmap) and the touch screen driver (correct scaling and maybe some ioctls for calibration).
• See the readme's in the a2kboot package below on how to boot.

• Latest a2kboot version is 1.3 and is released under the GNU General Public License.
• Older versions of a2kboot can be found here.
• No Linux kernel source code available yet. I'm on 2.4.5 with Russel King's rmk7 patch.
• Here you get Russell Kings's ARM patches

EDoom - Doom for the Psion Series  7

Download

• Latest version is 1.0.

Instructions:
• Unzip edoom.zip file onto your Series 7 on either c: or d:, honoring the directory structure (edoom.exe may be stored anywhere on the device).
• You need doom1.wad and doom3.wad which I'm sure you'll find somewhere on the internet. They should be in the same directory as edoom.exe
• Click on edoom.exe and enjoy the fun!
• Latest sources are released under the GNU General Public License. The same disclaimer as for EGnuBoy applies (about the cleanup).

EDoom splash screen on the Series 7.

EGnuBoy - A GameBoy emulator for the Psion Series 5mx & Series 7

Download

• Latest version is 1.0 read the readme for the list of new features.
• Latest sources are released under the GNU General Public License. Note that I've reused most stuff from my EMame sources but I haven't bothered to cleanup. If you're looking for EPOC low level graphics and audio handling, I'd suggest you look at the EMame sources instead.

I've only got pictures of games running under the emulator. Here's MsPacman running at the normal 160x144 screen size and here's MsPacman running at 320x288.

PsiLinux - Series 7: Linux on the Psion Series 7

What you need

• Latest version of Arlo
• Linux kernel (see download below)
• Quick installation guide:
• Install Arlo (see the Arlo readme)
• Copy Linux kernel image (uncompressed) on your EPOC c: or d: disk
• Copy a ramdisk image (keep compressed) on your EPOC c: or d: disk. I use the ramdisk I found here.
• Create an arlo.cfg file
• Run arlo and off you go....

• Linux boots ok, ramdisks loads ok. Full access is possible via the serial console.
• See a  picture of the S7 booting Linux, here's another one that shows the frame buffer console.

Status on hardware:
• serial port: works out of the box, don't know whether it's complete.
• frame buffer: changed the sa1100 frame buffer driver to remap the video memory as setup by EPOC; it doesn't (yet) reprogram the LCD controller.
• timers: works out of the box, don't know wether it's complete.
• keyboard: work not started yet
• pcmcia: work not started yet
• pen driver: work not started yet
• watchdog: EPOC enables the SA1100 watchdog hardware. Since the watchdog cannot be disabled once enabled the Linux kernel must take over the watchdog control. It doesn't appear to do that yet, so it reboots after a minute or 2.

• The latest S7 kernel image and source patches.
• Note that my source patches are against Russell Kings's ARM patches and Nico Pitre's SA1100 patches. Apply Russell's patch first, then Nico's patch and finally mine.

Boot2nd: A portable second stage Boot Loader for Linux

Download

• Latest version is 1.0, read the readme for the list of new features.
• Boot2nd is released under the GNU General Public License.

EMame: A port of MAME for EPOC32

EMame is the port of MAME to EPOC32 and can be used on Psion devices such as the Series 5mx and Series 7.
 

Download

• Latest version of EMame is 1.2, see the readme on the new features and how to install.
• Latest sources are released under the GNU General Public License. Read the building instructions to see what else you need to compile and link EMame. I'd strongly suggest to read the instruction first to see what you're letting yourself into.  I've includes all of the generated .wins, .marm and .dsp files - if things don't work according to the instructions, use them instead. Please bear with me if I don't respond strait away on your "it doesn't build" email.
• This version of Emame supports 592 games see the game list.
• I've also written an EMame FAQ, which you may find usefull.

ER5 screen shots

Here' my old time favorite Pacman; it's running on the Series 5mx. Here's pacman again, this time running on the ER5 emulator (Series 7 configuration).
 

ER6 - Quartz screen shots

I've ported EMame over to ER6 - Quartz, hurray! Here's pacman running on the ER6 emulator. Quartz manufacturers willing to donate a unit are more than welcome to do so. I will then of course make sure EMame will run on your hardware :-)
 

Game roms

No one is allowed to distribute ROM images with MAME, so EMame doesn't either. Rumors have it that www.mame.dk might have a 'few' rom files :-). Here's the romlist for the current version of EMame. Remember to copy these zip files in either c:\emame\roms or d:\emame\roms.
 

Send feedback to:  EMame maintainer
For the latest version see: EMame homepage

ArLo: A Linux Boot Loader for the Psion Series 5, 5mx and 7

Download

• Latest version is 1.33, read the readme for the list of new features.
• Before you run any version of Arlo, you MUST do a cold reboot first because usually the device driver has been changed. Unfortunately, the device driver cannot be unloaded other then by rebooting.
• Latest sources are released under the GNU General Public License.

Status on booting Linux kernels

• Series 5: Fully supported (for quite a while actually), see the project web site.
• Series 5mx: This Linux version is currently under development. We've recently got hold of the relevant information on the S5mx hardware, so it's finally going to happen. There is no official kernel out there for the S5mx but you may try one of the developers home page.
• Series 7: This Linux version is under development by yours truly. See the section on PsiLinuxS7.

DESKWIN : A virtual desktop manager for Windows 9X/NT

• Latest version is 1.3.3, read the readme for a list of features.
• Latest sources are released under the GNU General Public License.

Send questions, remarks or bug reports about deskwin to: Deskwin maintainer
 

FSDEXT2 : Second extended file system for Windows 95

About fsdext2

• Latest stable version is  0.16 , see the readme, historyand the faq first
• Optionally, you could try version  0.17 ,  which has some new features, including an unmount option. However, it does not handle removable media (floppies, cd-roms, zip drives etc) correctly. If you insert such a new media while fsdext2 is active, then you won't be able to use that new media after a new reboot. Nothing bad happened, it just won't get recognised by Win95.
• version 0.17a and 0.17b caused me a lot of trouble, so I don't make them public anymore!
• Latest source is available as well (after unzip -d, read src.txt first)
• Please note that from version 0.17, FSDEXT2 is copyrighted and licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License.

Support

• Crash/blue screen when you start the machine. Fsdext2 is not using a very sound mechanism to interface with block device drivers (hey, someone at Microsoft should have written better documentation) I've tweaked it until it worked on my machine, but it seems not to be working on all machine.
• Win98 extended partitions. Fsdext2 does not detect the newer style win98 extended partitions and therefor anything in them cannot be read.

Other links

If you are interested in file systems, check out Georgatos Photis' home page

Peter van Sebille

This page was last updated at: Oct 7, 2000