Re: Gigabyte-class SD [or MMC or MMCplus] cards
According to Brown, Aaron F,
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> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: Klaus Weidner [mailto:kw@w-m-p.com]
> >Sent: Tuesday, March 08, 2005 3:59 PM
> >To: Tony Godshall
> >Cc: debian-handheld@lists.debian.org
> >Subject: Re: Gigabyte-class SD [or MMC or MMCplus] cards
> >
> >On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 03:24:03PM -0800, Tony Godshall wrote:
> >> You mean it's not really useful as an organizer when running
> >> even the innovative pocketworkstation.com user interface?
> >
> >That interface turns it into a miniature Debian system, but I haven't
> >found any tools that make it useful for PIM tasks, such as address book
> >and calendar, and syncing with a desktop machine. The Qtopia/Opie PIM
> >tools apparently don't work in the X11 environment unless you recompile
> >them yourself, and GPE was still mostly useless last time I checked
> >(which was a couple of months ago).
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> I also found GPE mostly useless, at least for the PIM tasks. Overall I
> really liked GPE, it just seemed a little rough around the edges. This
> was also a couple of months back... One possibility is setting up a
> dual boot environment. Something pretty close to the original Sharp ROM
> image for PDA tasks and something more like pocket Debian for
> experimenting and more workstation oriented tasks. But currently I am
> just going to see if Open Embedded, www.openembedded.org, keeps me happy
> on both fronts.
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> >
> >But maybe things have improved since then - if anyone can recommend
> >specific Debian packages please do so.
> >
> >> But before I order I just want to be clear on this... if I
> >> get SD, I won't be able to use it if I upgrade my kernel
> >> past whatever Sharp gives me (can I run pocketworkstation
> >> and Opie and GPE with Sharp's kernel)?
> >
> >pocketworkstation works with the Sharp kernel, don't know about the
> >others.
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> You can run Opie and / or GPE with the OpenZaurus / OpenEmbedded kernel
> which either is the Sharp kernel or (what I believe to be the case) uses
> the Sharp SD/MMC driver module. There was some discussion, probably on
> a more Zaurus centric list, of somebody writing an MMC only driver
> module since avoiding the whole SD issue would allow it to be open
> sourced. I don't know if anything happened with that.
Ah, so really no kernels past Sharp's? Nobody running e.g.
2.6.x?
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