palm

OpenBSD/palm was an experimental port of OpenBSD that used to run on PDAs made by Palm with an ARM PXA2xx processor. There was never an official release of the OpenBSD/palm port. The OpenBSD/palm port was discontinued after the 5.3 release.

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History

The Palm port was started as a fork of the Zaurus port in March 2009 with the intention to make the system run on Palm Tungsten|T5. The project was later approved as a semestral work at the Department of Software Engineering, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University in Prague mentored by Leo Galambos.

As the project advanced, support for more Palm devices was added as well as support for various peripherals and the project outgrew the initial agreement for the semestral project.

Current status

OpenBSD/palm had been tested and was known to be working on the following models: Tungsten|T5, T|X, LifeDrive and the Zire72. There was also initial support for the Palm Tungsten|C.

Support included the LCD, buttons, USB host (through a hub with external power supply), PXA SD/MMC controller and UART (not available on Zire72). On Palm LifeDrive there is also a driver for the built-in hard drive.

Supported hardware

• For a complete system component and device driver listing for this architecture, see intro(4/zaurus).

• Tungsten|T5 / T|X / LifeDrive / Zire 72
• Intel PXA27x ARM CPU.
• com(4) standard, infrared and bluetooth serial ports.
• lcd(4) display panel, supporting wscons(4).
• wskbd(4) keyboard.
• wd(4) on-board microdrive.
• ohci(4) USB controller supporting most usb(4) devices.
• pxammc(4) MMC/SD/SDIO controller.
• pxagpio(4) GPIO controller.

• Devices that can be connected:
  • Most USB devices, see usb(4) for a list.