Old News
2006-03-09: Start working... -- BiroMark
2006-03-12: I broke the hold switch successfully... -- BiroMark
2006-06-09: Added some info on the hardware; still looking for JTAG -- WolfgangKempin
2006-06-16: Added some more info on the hardware. -- PedroCoke
2006-06-17:
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Followed BiroMark's example and broke the hold switch... It's pretty much impossible to glue the piece back on, the closest replacement I could find was
this one from panasonic. -- PedroCoke
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The Acer n50 is now officially registered as ARM Linux machine type n50 with machine id 1071. (I see no point in distinguishing between the Standard and the Premium as there's not that much difference.) -- WolfgangKempin
2006-06-20: Started poking arround with HaRET. -- PedroCoke
2006-06-21: The iPAQ hx2410 kernel boots, but gets I/O errors reading from SD. Added some info on the bootloader too. WolfgangKempin identified the Wi-Fi chipset(Marvell 88W8305). Great Work! =) -- PedroCoke
2006-06-22: Registered project at
Sourceforge so that bigger files can be shared more easily. A recent cross-compilation
toolchain is available for download. Feel free to leave any comments at the new discussion page. -- WolfgangKempin
2006-10-06: Finally started n50 kernel port and added some basic machine definitions. Kernel boots but can't run anything from initrd yet. -- WolfgangKempin
2007-01-22: LCD and MMC/SD seem to work now. Experimental binary package available in the download section. -- WolfgangKempin
2007-01-23: Button and backlight support added. That was painless
-- WolfgangKempin