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_dev-null Page Icon Posted 2019-10-14 5:17 PM
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I have NetBSD on my J720 and i think it is the best option for a modern OS on the Jornada. Are here any other NetBSD users?

Currently i have NetBSD 8.1 installed on a 32GB CF Card. Together with a few programs i need for my work.

At the moment i work on a RAM upgrade to 128MB. You can read about that in my other thread. To get this working i need to change some things in the hpcboot.exe. Maybe someone can help me with that!

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stingraze Page Icon Posted 2019-10-14 9:31 PM
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It's good to find another NetBSD user!
I have booted and compiled simple programs on Sigmarion 1 with NetBSD 7.99.

It works great, but since Sigmarion 1 only has 1x Compact Flash I am thinking of a way to communicate via serial cable.
I've been thinking to do it, but I've been busy with other stuff.




Good luck on 128MB RAM for J720!



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Ethan720 Page Icon Posted 2019-10-27 6:31 PM
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where do i download it?
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stingraze Page Icon Posted 2019-10-28 12:56 AM
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If you're referring to Jornada 720 & NetBSD:

Here's one tutorial:
http://www.wanda25.de/netbsd-jornada.html

Here's also another:
https://wiki.netbsd.org/tutorials/how_to_install_netbsd_on_hpcarm/

If you're referring to Sigmarion 1 / Mobile Gear:

Japanese GitHub:
https://github.com/ebijun/NetBSD/blob/master/Guide/hpcmips.rst
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_dev-null Page Icon Posted 2019-11-09 8:52 AM
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Nice little machine!
There is a project out there that makes it possible to connect over RS232 to Wifi. https://github.com/8bit-bruno/WiFiModem

I work currently on a cross-compile environment for the Jornada on my 86_64 machine. Because compiling big programs on the Jornada isnt that funny ...
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_dev-null Page Icon Posted 2019-12-31 5:26 PM
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I have compiled a few programs/tools/games and libraries for NetBSD/hpcarm 8.1 . Maybe someone can use the packages.

Here you go: http://www.sp-net.at/nextcloud/s/E6CRRBdEokd97Xe

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stingraze Page Icon Posted 2020-01-02 12:45 PM
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Nice little machine!
There is a project out there that makes it possible to connect over RS232 to Wifi. https://github.com/8bit-bruno/WiFiModem

I work currently on a cross-compile environment for the Jornada on my 86_64 machine. Because compiling big programs on the Jornada isnt that funny ...


Thanks for the github link. I'll put it into my to-do list for the future.
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Duckworth Page Icon Posted 2020-02-15 7:59 AM
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_dev-null, what sorts of programs are you running on NetBSD? Does it run X? What about suspend?
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_dev-null Page Icon Posted 2020-02-15 9:11 PM
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Yes it runs X. I used fluxbox as desktop environment. I used Mutt (Mail), SSH, rdesktop (M$ Remotedesktop), avrdude, vnc, vpnc (VPN), python and for writing text. Suspend works. But not as battery saving as with WinCE...
It is much more useable as the old WinCE!

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Duckworth Page Icon Posted 2020-02-15 11:26 PM
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Thanks. Yes, I had JLime working on my 720 but it was so out of date that I didn't bother with it.

I assume the NetBSD system is all up-to-date?

Which have you found to be more useable, NetBSD or the Debian update you have been working on?
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_dev-null Page Icon Posted 2020-02-16 9:02 AM
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NetBSD 8.1 is up to date and there are many pre-compiled applications available! I think that also NetBSD 9 works on the Jornada, but i did not try the new version.
I have compiled a few applications and libraries that are not available pre-compiled http://www.sp-net.at/nextcloud/s/iofRdEk3B8LTgHs
Everything else has to be compiled via pkgsrc!

Currently NetBSD is far more usable than my Debian experiments ...

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Duckworth Page Icon Posted 2020-02-17 7:35 AM
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It looks like there are no 9.0 NetBSD pre-compiled packages on hpcarm. Incredibly, they did not seem to bother with compiling any amd64 ones either!

https://cdn.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/packages/NetBSD/amd64/



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Paianni Page Icon Posted 2020-02-17 7:52 PM
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Starting to wish I had kept my J720.
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newton Page Icon Posted 2020-02-22 1:37 AM
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Figure the maintainers of mpcarm and other chips are waiting for a slow weekend to sit down and compile a bunch of packages.

I'm waiting on hpcmips for an IBM Z50

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platform88 Page Icon Posted 2022-06-04 5:00 AM
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Hi Stefan, thanks for uploading the packages for NetBSD/hpcarm! I have been trying to get the cross-compilation going for hpcsh unsuccessfully. Do you think you still have your mk.conf and / or memories of the process?
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