The Palm Linux hackers at HackNDev’s did not get too much press attention over the last few weeks: everybody was focused on webOS instead. However, the boys have made significant progress in the past – here is the latest status update:
I just managed to suspend and wakeup Centro and LifeDrive to mem. The problem was with bootloader which was corrupting memory. With this issue fixed, PalmLD, Centro (probably PalmTX too) can happily suspend to mem. I’m currently rewriting the suspend support for mainline merge.
Their Palm Linux ports will IMHO gain relevance in the near future: while the operating system running on the hardware of current Palms will be abandoned in the near future, I predict that the hardware itself will still be pretty useful two years from now.
If the work of the boys eventually ends up in an Android port, people who currently own Palm OS handhelds can look forward to a few extra years of product lifetime…
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