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Article note: Motherfucker wrote a bare-metal kernel for Cortex-M3/M4 (and now M0) class parts, an ARM-on-Thumb JIT, and all the support infrastructure to host PalmOS5 on modern Cortex-M micocontrollers.
Holy shit.
Dmitry Grinberg had demonstrated a Raspberry Pi RP2040 microcontroller running unmodified PalmOS 5.2.8 (showing off world’s only ARM-to-thumb1 just in time (JIT) compiler).
How little RAM/CPU does PalmOS 5 really require? Since rePalm had support (at least in theory) for Cortex-M0, I wanted to try on real hardware, as previously the support was tested on CortexEmu only. There does happen to be one Cortex-M0 chip out there with enough ram – the RP2040 – the chip in the $4 Raspberry Pi Pico. I then sought out a display with a touchscreen that could be easily bought. There were actually not that many options, but this one seemed like a good fit. It turned out, after some investigation, that driving it properly and quickly will not be at all easy. RP2040’s special sauce – the PIO – to the rescue!
Dmitry documents the extensive history and architecture of Palm devices and their operating system, from Motorola 68000 versions to the switch to Arm devices. A masterclass in both Palm and reverse engineering.
See this post for all the details. Via X (formerly Twitter).
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Zoë: You sanguine about the kinda reception we’re apt to receive on an Alliance ship, Captain? Mal: Absolutely. What’s “sanguine” mean? Zoë: Sanguine. Hopeful. Plus, point of interest, it also means “bloody”. Mal: Well, that pretty much covers all the options, don’t it?
