I own one of these nice toys, but unfortunately it runs Windows CE 3.0, which
makes it an unusable toy, at least for the kind work that i do. There are no tools to sniff wireless networks, no good network tools etc.
While some people are actually mad enough to port unix apps to Windows CE, others concentrated on trying to get some unix operating system to run on these machines.
This page documents various efforts to run linux on the Jornada 710/720/728. I update it sometimes but it is frequently (permanently?) out of date.
My links:
J720/Linux hardware problems - Description of various hardware issues, including info about the flash boards.
Linux on the 720 via hpcboot - this page describes booting a linux kernel on the Jornada 720 via hpcboot (NetBSD loader) - this is useful for people which don't have the replacement flash board from HP.
It was intended for people who wanted to take the concept further only, not for end users.
HaRET 0.3.4 for the Jornada 720
Various jornada files.
bootgpe 0.7.2 for Jornada 720
- a jffs2 image of the
GPE environment for the Jornada 720.
xmodmap.j720 - an xmodmap for the jornada 720 - use it to have all keys return normal characters.
External links:
Jornada 720 Status Page - for a while this was the only page with J720/linux information.
The Jornada Archives - archives of the linux/jornada mailing list
Palmtop NetBSD - NetBSD on the jornada 728 (should work on 710/720 too).
Porting Linux to the HP Jornada 820 - the hardware is different, but our work is related (they have used my page as a start, we benefited from their patch setting the PID register)
Peter Gerwinski's post - this is a port by a person that actually took my initial work, and turned it into something useful.
How to install Linux on jornada 720/710/728 - a howto on the use of Peter Gerwinski's images.
How to install Linux in a Jornada 710/720/728(this is a different document from the previous one) - a howto describing instalation of Peter's images and debian images.
Linexec for the Jornada 720 - a port of linexec to the jornada 720 by Yuusei KUWANA. Use it to boot 2.4 kernels instead of hpcboot
If you have another link that should be here, mail me
Jacek Lipkowski sq5bpf@acid.ch.pw.edu.pl