REVENGE Posted November 29, 2008 Share Posted November 29, 2008 It was said from the beginning: "it is only a matter of time." A team of developers have now successfully ported the Linux 2.6 kernel to run on the iPhone, along with a new bootloader called openiboot that is capable of booting both Linux and the iPhone OS. From the Linux on iPhone blog: "What we have: - Framebuffer driver - Serial driver - Serial over USB driver - Interrupts, MMU, clock, etc. What we have in openiboot (but hasn't been ported yet): - Read-only support for the NAND What we don't have (yet!): - Write support for the NAND - Wireless networking - Touchscreen - Sound - Accelerometer - Baseband support The current userland we're using, in the interest of expedience, is a Busybox installation created with buildroot, but glibc works fine as well, and we're going to build a more permanent userland solution." A video has been submitted to vimeo demonstrating the functionality of openiboot and the process of booting Linux. Instructions for installing this preliminary version of openiboot and/or the Linux kernel are available, but currently require a Linux console to execute. The necessary files may be downloaded from here. Congratulations to leader planetbeing and contributors CPICH, cmw, poorlad, ius, and saurik for this fundamentally important achievement! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/138694-linux-kernel-and-bootloader-ported-to-the-iphone/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
FavleX Posted November 29, 2008 Share Posted November 29, 2008 wow very promising Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/138694-linux-kernel-and-bootloader-ported-to-the-iphone/#findComment-981579 Share on other sites More sharing options...
triptolemos Posted November 29, 2008 Share Posted November 29, 2008 awesome! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/138694-linux-kernel-and-bootloader-ported-to-the-iphone/#findComment-981682 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stellair Posted November 29, 2008 Share Posted November 29, 2008 cool Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/138694-linux-kernel-and-bootloader-ported-to-the-iphone/#findComment-981731 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Embio Posted November 29, 2008 Share Posted November 29, 2008 Awesome! We are now living in the shadow of iPhone's running OS X and a Linux distro very soon (please let it be Debian first!) Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/138694-linux-kernel-and-bootloader-ported-to-the-iphone/#findComment-981769 Share on other sites More sharing options...
macgirl Posted November 29, 2008 Share Posted November 29, 2008 I used Linux in my iPod for some weeks and never liked, will see how is this gonna be. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/138694-linux-kernel-and-bootloader-ported-to-the-iphone/#findComment-981816 Share on other sites More sharing options...
SilentViper Posted November 29, 2008 Share Posted November 29, 2008 Maybe it they will get it to work on the 2nd gen touch! but nobody has yet Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/138694-linux-kernel-and-bootloader-ported-to-the-iphone/#findComment-981820 Share on other sites More sharing options...
(MoC) Posted November 29, 2008 Share Posted November 29, 2008 Awesome! We are now living in the shadow of iPhone's running OS X and a Linux distro very soon (please let it be Debian first!) Eww. Get a minimal installation of Gentoo on there and you'll be fine. Anyway, it would still be a hell of a lot of time until any GUI runs. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/138694-linux-kernel-and-bootloader-ported-to-the-iphone/#findComment-982033 Share on other sites More sharing options...
~pcwiz Posted November 29, 2008 Share Posted November 29, 2008 iPhone has enough power to run a minimalist desktop environment like fluxbox, that shouldn't be all that hard Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/138694-linux-kernel-and-bootloader-ported-to-the-iphone/#findComment-982058 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Suzie's Soliloquy Posted November 29, 2008 Share Posted November 29, 2008 Next they'll be trying to run Linux on a Satnav or something... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/138694-linux-kernel-and-bootloader-ported-to-the-iphone/#findComment-982067 Share on other sites More sharing options...
FadeFX Posted November 30, 2008 Share Posted November 30, 2008 hi guys, sorry for this maybe dumb question, but i did not actually follow that kind of iphone news, do not eaven have one, but is it that the iphone has a similar encrypted firmware like the newer ipods have? just interested if, because i use rockbox on my ipod nano 1st gen and since my girlfriend uses a nano 2nd gen what already has encrypted firmware wich makes it impossible to install rockbox on it. if it is, i could imagine a lot of people interrested in how u got round this at www.rockbox.org to build a port for this and other newer aplle targets... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/138694-linux-kernel-and-bootloader-ported-to-the-iphone/#findComment-983005 Share on other sites More sharing options...
cmdshft Posted November 30, 2008 Share Posted November 30, 2008 iPhone/iPod touch use iPhone OS, which is not used on any other iPod, so it has no effect on Rockbox for those iPod's. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/138694-linux-kernel-and-bootloader-ported-to-the-iphone/#findComment-983096 Share on other sites More sharing options...
REVENGE Posted December 2, 2008 Author Share Posted December 2, 2008 Maybe with this, in future the iGadget's runs moblin... That's a great News! Greetz... Uh yes, I would just like to point out that you have a creepy avatar. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/138694-linux-kernel-and-bootloader-ported-to-the-iphone/#findComment-984720 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeezoflip Posted December 4, 2008 Share Posted December 4, 2008 lol, no touchscreen. hm... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/138694-linux-kernel-and-bootloader-ported-to-the-iphone/#findComment-987617 Share on other sites More sharing options...
LonelyTV Posted December 4, 2008 Share Posted December 4, 2008 Android here we come! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/138694-linux-kernel-and-bootloader-ported-to-the-iphone/#findComment-987731 Share on other sites More sharing options...
kulos Posted December 9, 2008 Share Posted December 9, 2008 Next they'll be trying to run Linux on a Satnav or something... And with SatNav you mean a GPS navigation device like TomTom?? Tomtoms (and I guess a lot of others) already run Linux as default OS so ... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/138694-linux-kernel-and-bootloader-ported-to-the-iphone/#findComment-993394 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Korich Posted December 12, 2008 Share Posted December 12, 2008 who can give alternative download link because localhostr say - 1GB Bandwidth Exceeded ((( Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/138694-linux-kernel-and-bootloader-ported-to-the-iphone/#findComment-996212 Share on other sites More sharing options...
iHack13 Posted December 22, 2008 Share Posted December 22, 2008 I dont want to annoy you, but since the post button is there to share opinions I'll just shoot. I think it'd be much better if you remove the links for downloading. So the 'unexperienced users' ( regarding terminal and commands) don't even try to use this "developing but not finished project" on their phones. As there is a risk that the whole thread will be flooded with "I bricked my iPhone" Don't get me wrong, the links and advises on the frontpage look like, if it was a finished project and ready for download to all kind of users. It would be much nicer if you'd give a link for the interested guys, where they can find further information regarding download etc Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/138694-linux-kernel-and-bootloader-ported-to-the-iphone/#findComment-1009650 Share on other sites More sharing options...
booger_sniffer5000 Posted December 23, 2008 Share Posted December 23, 2008 I dont want to annoy you, but since the post button is there to share opinions I'll just shoot. I think it'd be much better if you remove the links for downloading. So the 'unexperienced users' ( regarding terminal and commands) don't even try to use this "developing but not finished project" on their phones. As there is a risk that the whole thread will be flooded with "I bricked my iPhone" Don't get me wrong, the links and advises on the frontpage look like, if it was a finished project and ready for download to all kind of users. It would be much nicer if you'd give a link for the interested guys, where they can find further information regarding download etc I think we are pretty safe, the download link doesn't work anyways. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/138694-linux-kernel-and-bootloader-ported-to-the-iphone/#findComment-1010667 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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