News
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.
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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.
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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
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.
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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If you watch these pages from time to time, you probably noticed that releases are outdated, not much usable for daily use and this project seems in this way dead.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Unfortunately, lot of developers are no longer active in
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
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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Palm Centro / LifeDrive suspend-to-mem
I just managed to suspend and wakeup Centro and LifeDrive to mem. The problem was with bootloader which was corrupting memory. With this issue fixed, PalmLD, Centro (probably PalmTX too) can happily suspend to mem. I'm currently rewriting the suspend support for mainline merge.
BFU installer v0.1
I've been too tired with all that installation problems and questions in forum so I wrote BFU installer which should handle all that work for you. You can find it in our tools GIT repository or link to most recent version in Bootpacks page. BASH only.
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OpenBSD/Palm update
One more note, see http://marex.hackndev.com/OpenBSD/ for information about OpenBSD/Palm project. In it's current state the framebuffer works properly, SD/MMC/SDHC card is recognised properly on PalmT5 and the system reaches ramdisk.