[uClinux-dev] Palm architecture information

From: Fabian Skivée (fskivee@skynet.be)
Date: Sun Nov 04 2001 - 16:43:10 EST


Hello,

I'm a student in computer science at the University of Liege in Belgium. For 
my thesis, I would like to study the ability for the palms to support a 
real-time platform and to develop a real time operating system for a palm Vx. 
I 'm trying to understand the M68EZ328 processor, and the m68k instruction 
set. 

I can't find other information about the palm hardware, information such as 
the connection between the components, the memory map,... I 'm also looking 
for the code to handle the interrupt, the LCD, a bootstrap loader ...  Could 
you help me or give me some information about all this ?

I don't understand how the palm organises its memory. How can I replace the 
palmOS by my own OS ? How can I generate a valid rom file from my binary file 
? Where in the memory must I put my code ? I would like to have a precise 
memory map of the palm Vx and all the constraints I have to respect (the 
double writing in memory for the first addresses ...)

Could you give me a bootloader which would let me call my OS start function 
? Can I place my OS in Ram and so force the processor to execute my code and 
never go out of this ? Could you give me the Palm OS source code which starts 
the palm Vx ?

I hope that you 'll take the time to answer my mail , if you can give me 
some other information or if you are interested by my research, then say so.

Thank you very much,

Best Regards

Fabian Skivée

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