uClinux on the PSP

***wraggster*** · January 11th, 2007, 22:11

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

**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

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.

**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

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