NetBSD/hpcarm

About NetBSD/hpcarm

NetBSD/hpcarm brings the NetBSD operating system to Intel StrongARM and XScale based Windows CE and Windows Mobile PDA machines.

The port name “hpcarm” was coined from hardwares NetBSD/hpcarm runs: StrongARM and XScale based systems in Microsoft's H/PC (Handheld PC) form factor. A H/PC machine contains a keyboard and a touch screen, equipped with 8MB or more RAM. The port supports the HPC form factor, as well as the H/PC Pro and PsPC (Palmsized PC). (Many PsPC machines are used by the developers for active development.)

NetBSD/hpcarm is an ideal platform for mobile computing applications because of hardware sizes. And, of course, NetBSD/hpcarm supports all the standard features you expect NetBSD, such as IPv6 and IPsec.

NetBSD/hpcarm News

2010-08-23:   Pre-installed disk image for NetBSD/hpcarm W-ZERO3

Pre-installed disk image for NetBSD/hpcarm W-ZERO3 that will fit 2GB SD card media is available at http://ftp.NetBSD.org/pub/NetBSD/misc/tsutsui/wzero3/. You can try NetBSD/hpcarm including Xserver on W-ZERO3 machines without complicated installation by simply writing the image to a 2GB SD card media by gzip(1) and dd(1) on UNIX environments, or the brandnew Rawrite32.exe tool for Windows. Pre-compiled pkgsrc-2010Q2 based package binaries for NetBSD/hpcarm 5.99.38 on the image are also available. See README file (or README.ja) for details.

2010-08-08:   LCD speed improvement for W-ZERO3 machines

LCD console speed on W-ZERO3 machines has been improved as ~three times by enabling write through cache against framebuffer memory.

2010-07-31:   Switch to using Xorg server by default

NetBSD/hpcarm port has been switched to using Xorg server by default. Snapshot binaries can be found in the daily build server. See announcement for more details.

2010-07-17:   MAXPARTITIONS in disklabel bumped

A maximum number of partitions in disklabel(5) has been bumped from 8 to 16 as well as i386 and other hpc ports.

2010-07-05:   Internal Wireless LAN support for WS003SH and WS004SH

Support for Intersil PrismGT 802.11b/g WLAN, which is used in WS003SH and WS004SH, has been added.

2010-05-30:   Keypad driver for WS011SH

Keypad driver for WS011SH has been added.

2010-05-25:   Keymaps for Xorg server for WS011SH/WS020SH

Xorg keyboard config files for WS011SH and WS020SH have been added.

2010-05-23:   Update support for WS020SH

SD insert/remove detection and keymap for WS020SH have been added.

2010-05-22:   Touchpad for WS011SH

Touchpad driver for WS011SH has been added.

2010-05-15:   Keymaps for Xorg server for WS003SH/WS007SH

Xorg keyboard config files for WS003SH and WS007SH have been added, and CCW Xorg server is now working.

2010-05-13:   Touchpad for WS003SH

Touchpad driver for WS003SH has been added.

2010-05-09:   Xservers for W-ZERO3

Xserver works on WS004SH, WS007SH, and WS011SH. See Jun Ebihara's post on netbsd-advocacy for details.

2010-04-17:   Support for WILLCOM / SHARP W-ZERO3 Smart Phones

Support for the W-ZERO3 Smart phones has been committed to NetBSD-current.

Archive of NetBSD/hpcarm news items

Supported System Models

Many kinds of H/PC, H/PC Pro, and PsPC systems are supported by NetBSD/hpcarm. View the supported system table to see if your system is supported.

Supported Processors

StrongARM and PXA2x0 XScale processors are supported by NetBSD/hpcarm. View the processor comparison table to see if your processor is supported.

Processor Comparison

Support Status