Re: psion 3a

[Bill Bland <"Dr William Bland <wjb@mail.netpd.com>"@netpd.com>]

On Tue, Jun 18, 2002 at 07:49:06AM +0100, Paul Nasrat wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 17, 2002 at 07:57:10PM -0400, Matthew Stapleton wrote:
> > Can the psion 3a be made to run Elks?  If so, can someone point me to the
> > relevant information?
> 
> Yes the 3a is supported.  Although the current cvs isn't working 100%.
> 
> You will need a 128k flash disk for the disk image.

Hi Paul & list,
		You may remember that ELKS didn't work on my Psion 3,
since it only has 256k RAM which isn't enough to put the kernel in.

I've been wondering; there has been some discussion on the list recently
of getting swap working.  Now, given that my Psion 3 has a spare 256k
flash disk, in addition to the required 128k disk (and there are two
slots so both disks can be inserted at the same time), perhaps it would be
possible to use the second disk with swapping to make the kernel fit?  The
256k RAM plus the 256k swap disk would make 512k total memory, which IIRC
is what the Psion 3a/3c have as RAM and so must be big enough for the
kernel.

If anyone thinks this is worth trying, I'd love to have a go (but I'll
probably need a lot of help!)

Best wishes,
		Bill.

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