On Mon, 2006-04-10 at 18:52 +0200, Rene Wagner wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-04-10 at 11:09 -0500, Chris Weiss wrote:
> > RAM isn't as important as ROM, which with that old a device is
> > probably 16meg, or 32 if you are lucky. you probably won't be able to
> > run 8.x on it unless it does have 32 or more.
>
> What makes you believe so? To my knowledge all released h3600 images
> are small enough to fit in 16MB of flash. bootstrap images are actually
> just around 5MB in size.
>
> The reason for recommending 0.7.2 for h3100 devices was a different
> one anyway IIRC. I'm afraid I forget the details.
There were two main problems with the h3100: firstly that 16MB RAM is
really not enough to run any non-trivial software anymore, and secondly
that recent versions (2.20.x) of bootldr get the LCD setup wrong. The
RAM thing was historically a bit less of a problem with Opie than GPE,
and it's possible that 0.8.x Opie would actually still run OK on h3100
if you used an appropriately old bootldr. GPE is almost certainly a
hopeless case: even 32MB RAM is uncomfortably tight, and I wouldn't be
too surprised if you can't even get to the desktop screen in 16MB
without manual hackery.
p.
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