From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LknRr-00078w-3y for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 20 Mar 2009 22:44:19 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 146B5E01C2; Fri, 20 Mar 2009 22:44:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E1196E0226 for ; Fri, 20 Mar 2009 22:44:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.19.59] (hangover.linbsd.net [69.80.193.15]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 838B064AD9 for ; Fri, 20 Mar 2009 22:44:16 +0000 (UTC) Subject: Re: [gentoo-embedded] Gentoo embedded on HTC S710 From: Ned Ludd To: gentoo-embedded@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <8349216a0903201532g279ab777o49eba7031d78ad8b@mail.gmail.com> References: <8349216a0903201532g279ab777o49eba7031d78ad8b@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Gentoo Linux Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2009 15:44:15 -0700 Message-Id: <1237589055.23631.14.camel@hangover> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-embedded@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-embedded@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.22.3.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: f1c1b8f5-693d-49fc-ab5a-748c7bcffb70 X-Archives-Hash: 590222e37f2955da3314c25b4f7a605f On Fri, 2009-03-20 at 23:32 +0100, Jean-Marc Beaune wrote: > Hi, > > I've been enjoying Gentoo for several years on computers and I was > looking forward to playing with Gentoo embedded. > I finally have the opportunity to get some hardware to start playing > and it's an HTC S710. > > - Is it possible to embed Gentoo on such a device? Yes. It's an OMAP850 based device. The guys who are active on developing for that chip are the guys who can be found in #linwizard on freenode (which uses gentoo at it's core for it's userlands so far) http://linwizard.wiki.sourceforge.net/ http://pdadb.net/index.php?m=specs&id=679 > - Which graphical interface? I've been using GPE so far. > - I would like to use the phone eventually, are there some nice > applications developped for mobile devices? Yes and No. > - Is Gentoo embedded the best choice? That is a per user choice. > - Will I be able to restore windows on it? Most likey yes. Chances are you will be doing most everything intially via haret.exe which lets you boot the linux kernel from WM. And upon reboot it goes back to WM. -- Ned Ludd Gentoo Linux