🚀 go-pugleaf

Hi folks,

I've got one of Sharp's new linux-based PDAs (the Zaurus, currently
available to any interested developers) and I've been looking into
porting GNU Chess to the device.  The Zaurus has an ARM processor, and
I've got it up and running on another ARM device after modifying
util.c to allow the compiler to drop into the #ifdef i386 (hardcoded
for now).  I'm assuming that's an endian issue looking out for
big-endian processors, not just anything other than an x86 processor.

A couple questions:

1) Because of memory constraints (the PDA has 32mb total, probably 4mb
   free to applications), I've had to set the HashSize down a lot.  I
   haven't tested the limits on the PDA, but I would guess it's going
   to have to be between 32k & 64k.  So how poorly is GNU Chess going
   to play after that?

2) I'd like to wrap a GUI layer around it, of course... is xboard a
   good model to use, or should I think about trying to gut GNU Chess
   and do something more in-process?

3) Is there a better Chess distribution to use on small-footprint
   devices like a PDA?

Any opinions would be greatly appreciated...

Thanks!

jason