From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bill Bland <"Dr William Bland "@netpd.com> Subject: Re: psion 3a Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2002 09:48:34 +0100 Sender: linux-8086-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20020618094834.A13483@remover.netpd.com> References: <20020617.195711.-231755.0.matthewstapleton@juno.com> <20020618064906.GA3705@raq465.uk2net.com> Reply-To: Dr William Bland Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20020618064906.GA3705@raq465.uk2net.com>; from pauln@truemesh.com on Tue, Jun 18, 2002 at 07:49:06AM +0100 List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-8086@vger.kernel.org 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. -- Dr. William Bland, NetPD Ltd. email: wjb at netpd dot com. Microsoft makes simple tasks easy and complex tasks impossible. Sometimes it makes the simple tasks impossible too.