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wraggster
January 11th, 2007, 22:11
chrismulhearn (http://forums.ps2dev.org/viewtopic.php?t=7426) posted this news:


Hey, I ported Xiptech's mipsnommu version of uClinux-2.4.19 to the PSP. The only hardware support it has currently is the headphone jack's serial port (used by the console and tty implementation), but its a start!

Check it out here: http://df38.dot5hosting.com/~remember/chris/

It mounts a ramdisk as the root filesystem, the root disk image is linked in with the kernel. The disk image has a minimal userland including sh, ls, mkdir, echo, cat, basic stuff like that, built with uClibC. All the executables are statically-linked.

The only way to use it is with some sort of serial port hardware like discussed here: http://forums.ps2dev.org/viewtopic.php?t=5234

Hopefully more people will help now and we can really turn this into something.

Could this be the start of a real attempt to get Linux on the PSP, well lets hope so :)
imagecko
January 11th, 2007, 22:15
looks complicate lol , but good work
mike03$$$
January 11th, 2007, 22:38
This sounds good hope its better than bochs and ballisk I tried both and they are crap hope this uses internet and wireless feature
Cap'n 1time
January 11th, 2007, 22:57
This sounds good hope its better than bochs and ballisk I tried both and they are crap hope this uses internet and wireless feature


Well this isnt emulating anything, so naturally it will run alot better as it is written specifically for the psps processor. Pretty exciting. I would love to see bitchX on this thing once wifi is supported... Course you cant beat DSlinux with its use of the stylus.. but this is still good news. :)
carlitx
January 11th, 2007, 23:13
this seems kool...hiope it develops good.
SpooForBrains
January 11th, 2007, 23:25
Yeah, hope this gets somewhere. Of course, it could turn out to be as much use as iPodLinux (ie. pretty much none).

Why hasn't someone ported RockBox yet, that's what I want to know.
hlide
January 11th, 2007, 23:33
Yeah, hope this gets somewhere. Of course, it could turn out to be as much use as iPodLinux (ie. pretty much none).

Why hasn't someone ported RockBox yet, that's what I want to know.

Oh you know RockBox :)
SpooForBrains
January 11th, 2007, 23:51
Yeah, I'm just pissed I don't have a compatible media player :(
Napalm-Death
January 11th, 2007, 23:58
RockBox is awesome, but I haven't used it since the summer..I kind of miss it. Does it have video support now? XD
joshisposer
January 11th, 2007, 23:59
This is cool and *hopefully* will get some coders on it. I mean, a lot could come out of this.
SpooForBrains
January 12th, 2007, 00:05
RockBox is awesome, but I haven't used it since the summer..I kind of miss it. Does it have video support now? XD

For some devices, apparently.
Napalm-Death
January 12th, 2007, 00:40
Sorry, I keep forgetting that RockBox supports more devices than just the iPod, I might as well stop spamming this thread with stuff not related to uClinux. Thanks SFB.
pt9087
January 12th, 2007, 02:33
What the hel is rockbox... did i miss out on something?
Ramza042
January 12th, 2007, 02:50
Search engines really are a beautiful thing.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=RockBox
F9zDark
January 12th, 2007, 05:20
Being that I am too lazy to give this a shot myself, is it at all graphical? Or is it text based? God I hate text based OSes...
the_eternal_dark
January 12th, 2007, 09:26
What the hel is rockbox... did i miss out on something?

Check it out, http://www.rockbox.org/

Now, back on to the topic. I'm willing to bet you can only use this with fw 1.5 and below to install it. I can't wait to see how far this goes as far as development and functions. I hate waiting...
nofx_sk8
January 12th, 2007, 09:26
God I hate text based OSes...

...but its how everithing began.(Hint) - Just go back to the roots to find out so more :D
E.J.
January 12th, 2007, 12:53
Wow, that means that the watchdog issue is solved?, this is awesome!

Now what we need is people to write device drivers for the psp and voila :D
SpooForBrains
January 12th, 2007, 20:21
Watchdog issue?

As for text based OS, not only is it a text based OS, but you can only interact with it via a serial adaptor plugged into the serial port near the headphone socket, using hyperterminal, it doesn't even use the screen yet :)
woop
January 13th, 2007, 00:31
this could be great, with the psps built in wireless..........they could port airsnort and we could all possibly crack or neighbors wep.....:D
StealthCP
January 13th, 2007, 21:18
I'm only wondering lightly the possibilities this will have. Once a unique GUI is designed for this, with programs capable of making use of the PSP's Firmware to launch native PSP apps under uClinux, everyone will use it. Not to mention the number of applications that could be ported :D It would be beautiful.
kohan69
April 21st, 2007, 21:53
WHy not use usb :confused: