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Jokse
13-04-2003, 03:24 PM
http://www.uclinux.org/pub/uClinux/ports/arm7tdmi/
A linux version designed to operate with microcontrollers, might be usefull for you guys, but i guess we first have to figure out how/from where nokia cell phones boot...

wumpus
10-07-2003, 03:30 PM
Hmm, they boot from address 0x40 in the MCU rom.
Interesting project, but I assume my 3310 has far from enough RAM and ROM to install Linux :-)

hanzelko
11-07-2003, 08:47 AM
Hi.

With linux for Nokia. My N5110 has 64Kb of RAM and for ucLinux and eCOS (microkernels) it is enough of RAM. I have try to compile eCOS with memory map for Nokia and in debugger it looks like it was working. But problem is that drivers for various HW in Nokia phones must be written and added to eCOS or ucLinux.
And the biggest problem is when you want to use it with linux as a phone :) the GSM routines must be added to kernel too.

wumpus
11-07-2003, 09:38 AM
3310 has 2mb of flash and 128kb of memory, would that be enough?

And you're right with the hardware driver part; putting linux on it without any hardware support would get you nothing, no screen, no way to interface with it.

I wish someone had reverse engineered those things already and published the results...