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  1. ÐeltaResero

    Hacking Coding vWii 3-core support - everything you need to know.

    Enabling SMP in the kernel disables EMBEDDED6XX and therefore disables GAMCUBE_COMMON that will disable all GameCube/Wii/vWii support in the kconfigs. So if I understand correctly, than you did account for this, re-enabled the hardware support (such as MMC_SDHCI_OF_HLWD), and then edited the...
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    Hacking Coding vWii 3-core support - everything you need to know.

    Your post is a bit unclear, are you asking which distributions of Linux can run on Wii consoles? If you are, then the answer would be just about any distribution that supports the PowerPC platform. Not only can PowerPC Linux distributions run natively on Wii consoles, but also any PowerPC...
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    Hacking Coding vWii 3-core support - everything you need to know.

    You might have better luck trying to get a used one or looking into using coupons and other promotions. Here in Canada there was a $50 price drop, but generally it's still cheaper in the United States.
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    Hacking Coding vWii 3-core support - everything you need to know.

    The 3.0 kernel is compatible with vWii just not with both both methods (see this for more info: "http://code.google.com/p/gbadev/issues/detail?id=9"). As for SMP, I know at the very least we'll need to add support into the wii.dts file like you said. I assume we'll need to implement cache...
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    Hacking Coding vWii 3-core support - everything you need to know.

    This type of logic would probably be more practical after the holidays. As for the Linux side of things here, is there anyone else currently working on this? The SMP part is years ahead of my time and the only thing slightly useful that I have found was on...
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    Hacking (vWii) - Tri-Core Linux

    I'm not sure yet, but I assume the framebuffer (unlike the Cube driver) would work with only minor changes at least. We still have about a year until distributions such as Ubuntu start moving away from X and even if Wayland doesn't work for us, there will still be a X11 compatibility mode for...
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    Hacking (vWii) - Tri-Core Linux

    The MINI Kernel Preview 7 patch has been updated to 3.10.y (https://github.com/DeltaResero/GC-Wii-Linux-Kernel-3.10.y). There was a slight throughput boost and it was a bit more stable in my test compared to the 3.0.y and 3.4.y versions. Things are still slowly breaking, but at least it still...
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    Hacking (vWii) - Tri-Core Linux

    I placed additional GameCube and Wii (IOS and MINI) defconfigs into the folder "arch/powerpc/configs/". The Wii configurations are known to work, but I don't know about the GameCube ones. I assume the WiiU would use a configuration similar to the MINI Wii configuration that I have there. I...
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    Hacking (vWii) - Tri-Core Linux

    I didn't stop there, I also ported the 3.4 kernel patch to 3.6.11. For those who don't know already, the 3.4.y is the currently latest longterm kernel and 3.6.11 is a just a discontinued kernel that I stopped at along the way to the next (currently unreleased) 3.12 kernel. I likely won't be...
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    Hacking (vWii) - Tri-Core Linux

    Good news, everyone! I've managed to forward port mikep7 to 3.6 successfully and am just working out a few bugs. Unfortunately, I was unable to solve the issue I mentioned previously regarding the SDHC driver and have just worked around the commits causing the issue by adding code to revert the...
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    Hacking (vWii) - Tri-Core Linux

    Probably just the JPEG EXIF not matching the actual orientation of the image. Also, I don't recommend 13.04 and 13.10 as they are quite buggy right now (very high memory and cpu usage). Debian Jessie and Wheezy both work well though.
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    Hacking (vWii) - Tri-Core Linux

    I think I sent an email previously regarding this to you, but I forgot to attach the patch that fixes the memory errors in 3.1-rc1 that prevent compiling. In the link below, there should be a zip folder, apply the first 2 patches (0002 and 0003) in it to 3.1-rc1 sources. The other 2 patches are...
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    Hacking (vWii) - Tri-Core Linux

    You could test this, but I doubt it works currently as it lacks a few functions for that. Some of the missing functions, get merged by 3.1-rc2 I think.
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    Hacking (vWii) - Tri-Core Linux

    I have done a proof of concept 3.6 kernel and it worked for IOS (Wii), just not MINI. Something with SDHC silently breaks in 3.1-rc1 preventing booting, and this is what I have been working on solving in the last few weeks. I still can't seem to fix the issue and will likely require help...
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    Hacking (vWii) - Tri-Core Linux

    This is likely likely due to the USB driver being unfinished and lacking proper DMA support. Someone recently sent me a link to a repository with the fix for 2.6.35, so hopefully sometime this Fall I should have some time to forward port it too and add it back in if no else does. For now, only...
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