On Tue, Feb 13, 2024 at 9:12 PM Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, Feb 13, 2024, at 16:36, Guenter Roeck wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 13, 2024 at 03:14:21PM +0000, Peter Maydell wrote: > >> On Mon, 12 Feb 2024 at 14:36, Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> > On 2/12/24 04:32, Peter Maydell wrote: > >> > > The one SA1110 machine: > >> > > > >> > > collie Sharp SL-5500 (Collie) PDA (SA-1110) > >> > > > >> > I do test collie. > > Adding Linus Walleij and Stefan Lehner to Cc, as they were > interested in modernizing sa1100 back in 2022. If they > are still interested in that, they might want to keep collie > support. I'm not personally interested in the Collie, I have a SA1100 hardware but not that one. > Surprisingly, at the time I removed unused old board files, > there was a lot more interest in sa1100 than in the newer > pxa platform, which I guess wasn't as appealing for > retrocomputing yet. Andrea Adami and Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov did the work in 2017 to modernize it a bit, and Russell helped out. I was under the impression that they only used real hardware though! The Collie is popular because it is/was easy to get hold of and easy to hack. PXA was in candybar phones (right?) which are just veritable fortresses and really hard to hack so that is why there is no interest (except for the occasional hyperfocused Harald Welte), so those are a bit like the iPhones: you *can* boot something custom on them, but it won't be easy or quick, and not as fun and rewarding. The thriving world of PostmarketOS only exist because Google was clever to realize devices should have a developer mode. Yours, Linus Walleij
