Hacking Is there a way to have linux on PS TV/ PS Vita

[greggameplayer]

Hello everyone,
Is there a way to have linux running on PS TV/PS Vita ? if there is a way somebody can create a sort of linux emulator homebrew ?
It will be a great feature in order to play some games and to run some emulators not implemented on the PS Vita/PS TV yet.

 

[Ryccardo]

No(t yet), not like being able to Linux (or any other major OS) means much, especially for gaming, if there are no drivers specialized for the hardware (like GPU hardware acceleration)

 

[greggameplayer]

No(t yet), not like being able to Linux (or any other major OS) means much, especially for gaming, if there are no drivers specialized for the hardware (like GPU hardware acceleration)

You can use GPU Acceleration with Vita GL

 

[Ryccardo]

You can use GPU Acceleration with Vita GL

That's a library for hardware video acceleration in the Vita OS, not in Linux

 

[greggameplayer]

That's a library for hardware video acceleration in the Vita OS, not in Linux

But you can create a sort of linux emulator like winehq (windows emulator for linux)

 

[Ryccardo]

But you can create a sort of linux emulator like winehq (windows emulator for linux)

Wine is not an emulator, the name means literally that

You can either make a compatibility layer without emulation, like classic Wine; apart from the huge difficulty for little reward, it would be limited to ARM software in the first place...

...or you can make a full blown PC emulator (which DosBox is to a certain extent), with an obvious performance penalty...

...or you can make native of individual software, which is the best option for efficiency and long-term reliability

 

[greggameplayer]

Wine is not an emulator, the name means literally that

You can either make a compatibility layer without emulation, like classic Wine; apart from the huge difficulty for little reward, it would be limited to ARM software in the first place...

...or you can make a full blown PC emulator (which DosBox is to a certain extent), with an obvious performance penalty...

...or you can make native of individual software, which is the best option for efficiency and long-term reliability

But individual software required more work than making linux working on PS Vita

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If there is a linux port we are able to run citra and some games like castle crashers, which currently there is no way or nobody want to code citra port and castle crashers port.

 

[Ryccardo]

But individual software required more work than making linux working on PS Vita

And porting Linux requires a lot more effort than buying a Linux computer in the first place some of which outperform the PSTV while having a similiar size and being cheaper than PSTV + Dualshock

 

[master801]

This has already been answered.

https://gbatemp.net/threads/ps-vita-needs-linux-hear-me-out.477343/

 

[greggameplayer]

And porting Linux requires a lot more effort than buying a Linux computer in the first place some of which outperform the PSTV while having a similiar size and being cheaper than PSTV + Dualshock

You are talking about raspberry pi.
But I think we can have the same power with ps tv overclocked and cooled.
Sony underclocked the processor normally the ps vita/ps tv processor are able to run at 0.8 GHz to 2 GHz stable.

This has already been answered.

https://gbatemp.net/threads/ps-vita-needs-linux-hear-me-out.477343/

I know but i want to ask it again because it's an old thread