Homebrew [Release] Linux for the 3DS

[dark_samus3]

Is this Linux made completely from scratch or is it maybe based on some distro (e.g Arch Linux)?

this is just a port of the kernel, plus some tools that go along with it (buildroot)

 

[szymon170]

Hmm, what if we would take a Linux distro like Arch Linux and replaced the kernel with this one? Would it work?

 

[dark_samus3]

Hmm, what if we would take a Linux distro like Arch Linux and replaced the kernel with this one? Would it work?

heh, there are ways you could get it to run on here, I believe... but currently, it's just gotten really really early SD card support, which is read only... so probably not atm

 

[nooby89]

Will you add the official keyboard or just any toushscreen keyboard ?
@xerpi

 

[ihaveahax]

Will you add the official keyboard or just any toushscreen keyboard ?
@xerpi

official keyboard can't be used since the full 3DS OS isn't running in the background. but with touchscreen input, a touch keyboard would be nice.

 

[pdapanda]

Does the Linux core run on the same speed on both OLD and NEW 3DS？
I think I haven't seen difference as of now.

 

[dark_samus3]

Does the Linux core run on the same speed on both OLD and NEW 3DS？
I think I haven't seen difference as of now.

tbh, not sure... however, it's most likely configurable, or will be at some point... currently, work is focused on getting the other 2 cores on n3ds online and running, after that it'll most likely be proper SD card access and NAND access

 

[szymon170]

Does the Linux core run on the same speed on both OLD and NEW 3DS？
I think I haven't seen difference as of now.

Linux core runs pretty much the same on both versions, because it uses CLI. It takes so few of RAM and clock speed that you can't even notice the difference between both. But when the GUI will be released, or even desktop environment, then we would probably see drastical difference between both.

 

[pdapanda]

Linux core runs pretty much the same on both versions, because it uses CLI. It takes so few of RAM and clock speed that you can't even notice the difference between both. But when the GUI will be released, or even desktop environment, then we would probably see drastical difference between both.

I don't think weston is comand line

 

[WilliamO7]

I actually so wish I knew more about kernel development to help with this...

 

[szymon170]

I don't think weston is comand line

You can start weston, but by default it uses CLI. And I don't think that weston is GUI or DE, it's just a demo.

 

[xerpi]

You can start weston, but by default it uses CLI. And I don't think that weston is GUI or DE, it's just a demo.

More than a demo it's the Wayland's reference compositor. There are people using Weston as their DE for daily usage, it's blazing fast and not shitty like the X server.

 

[merauder75]

Echoing what Syzmon mentioned earlier, how hard would it be to build a distro? I know that both Arch and Debian have armv6 images that can be built, would I need to modify the loader to work with those?. Right now I'm building a version of filesystem that has OpenTyrian, since I tried porting it using the 3DS SDL2 port and that...didn't really work.

By the way, awesome work with all of this.

 

[hobbledehoy899]

Linux Mint 3D would be weird.

 

[Wolfsbane1985]

Would it be possible to run GRUB from this or is that too much for the 3ds processor?

 

[Deleted User]

Would it be possible to run GRUB from this or is that too much for the 3ds processor?

why you would like to run GRUB in it?

 

[Wolfsbane1985]

why you would like to run GRUB in it?

Upstream GRUB supports ARM

 

[Deleted User]

Upstream GRUB supports ARM

but what's your point to run GRUB on it, what you would boot with it?

 

[Wolfsbane1985]

but what's your point to run GRUB on it, what you would boot with it?

Not sure yet, just wondering if it was possible

 

[szymon170]

but what's your point to run GRUB on it, what you would boot with it?

Maybe the recovery mode of some sort, or even somehow 3DS firmware?