uClinux on the PSP

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January 11th, 2007, 22:11
wraggster

uClinux on the PSP

chrismulhearn 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 :)
January 11th, 2007, 22:15
imagecko

looks complicate lol , but good work
January 11th, 2007, 22:38
mike03$$$

This sounds good hope its better than bochs and ballisk I tried both and they are crap hope this uses internet and wireless feature
January 11th, 2007, 22:57
Cap'n 1time

Quote:

Originally Posted by mike03$$$

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. :)
January 11th, 2007, 23:13
carlitx

this seems kool...hiope it develops good.
January 11th, 2007, 23:25
SpooForBrains

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.
January 11th, 2007, 23:33
hlide

Quote:

Originally Posted by SpooForBrains

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 :)
January 11th, 2007, 23:51
SpooForBrains

Yeah, I'm just pissed I don't have a compatible media player :(
January 11th, 2007, 23:58
Napalm-Death

RockBox is awesome, but I haven't used it since the summer..I kind of miss it. Does it have video support now? XD
January 11th, 2007, 23:59
joshisposer

This is cool and *hopefully* will get some coders on it. I mean, a lot could come out of this.
January 12th, 2007, 00:05
SpooForBrains

Quote:

Originally Posted by Napalm-Death

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.
January 12th, 2007, 00:40
Napalm-Death

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.
January 12th, 2007, 02:33
pt9087

What the hel is rockbox... did i miss out on something?
January 12th, 2007, 02:50
Ramza042

Search engines really are a beautiful thing.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=RockBox
January 12th, 2007, 05:20
F9zDark

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...
January 12th, 2007, 09:26
the_eternal_dark

Quote:

Originally Posted by pt9087

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...
January 12th, 2007, 09:26
nofx_sk8

Quote:

Originally Posted by F9zDark

God I hate text based OSes...

...but its how everithing began.(Hint) - Just go back to the roots to find out so more :D
January 12th, 2007, 12:53
E.J.

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
January 12th, 2007, 20:21
SpooForBrains

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 :)
January 13th, 2007, 00:31
woop

yumpz

this could be great, with the psps built in wireless..........they could port airsnort and we could all possibly crack or neighbors wep.....:D
January 13th, 2007, 21:18
StealthCP

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.
April 21st, 2007, 21:53
kohan69

WHy not use usb :confused: