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OpenBSD/palm was an experimental port of OpenBSD that used to run on PDAs made
by Palm with an ARM PXA2xx processor.

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There was never an official release of the OpenBSD/palm port.

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<strong>The OpenBSD/palm port was discontinued after the 5.3 release.</strong>

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<h3 id="history"><strong>History</strong></h3>

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The Palm port was started as a fork of the Zaurus port in March 2009 with the
intention to make the system run on Palm Tungsten|T5. The project was later
approved as a semestral work at the <a href="http://www.ksi.mff.cuni.cz/en/">
Department of Software Engineering</a>, <a
href="http://www.mff.cuni.cz/toISO-8859-2.en/">Faculty
of Mathematics and Physics</a>, <a href="http://www.cuni.cz/UKENG-1.html">
Charles University in Prague</a> mentored by <a
href="http://www.egothor.org/~galambos/">Leo Galambos</a>.

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As the project advanced, support for more Palm devices was added as well as
support for various peripherals and the project outgrew the initial agreement
for the semestral project.

<h3 id="status"><strong>Current status</strong></h3>

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OpenBSD/palm had been tested and was known to be working on the following
models: Tungsten|T5, T|X, LifeDrive and the Zire72. There was also initial
support for the Palm Tungsten|C.

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Support included the LCD, buttons, USB host (through a hub with external
power supply), PXA SD/MMC controller and UART (not available on Zire72).
On Palm LifeDrive there is also a driver for the builtin hard drive.
<h3><strong>Supported hardware</strong></h3>

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For a complete system component and device driver listing for this architecture,
see <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-5.3/zaurus/intro.4">intro(4/zaurus)</a>.
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<li><strong>Tungsten|T5 / T|X / LifeDrive / Zire 72</strong>
<li>Intel PXA27x ARM CPU.
<li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-5.3/com.4">com(4)</a> standard, infrared and bluetooth serial ports.

<li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-5.3/zaurus/lcd.4">lcd(4)</a> display panel, supporting <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-5.3/zaurus/wscons.4">wscons(4)</a>.
<li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-5.3/wskbd.4">wskbd(4)</a> keyboard.

<li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-5.3/wd.4">wd(4)</a> on-board microdrive.
<li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-5.3/ohci.4">ohci(4)</a>
USB controller supporting most <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-5.3/usb.4">usb(4)</a> devices.
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<li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-5.3/zaurus/pxammc.4">pxammc(4)</a> MMC/SD/SDIO controller.
<li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-5.3/zaurus/pxagpio.4">pxagpio(4)</a> GPIO controller.

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<li>Devices that can be connected:
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<li>Most USB devices, see <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-5.3/usb.4">usb(4)</a> for a list.
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