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Linux Kernel Booting On the iPhone

Posted by Soulskill on from the there's-no-iphone-in-team dept.

mhm was one of many readers to note that the Linux 2.6 kernel has been ported to the iPhone. "Planetbeing, one of the iPhone devteam members, has been working on porting Linux to the iPhone (along with a custom bootloader called OpeniBoot). Today they managed to boot the kernel! Video showing the boot process has been posted. Instructions and binaries are available on the project blog."

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  1. Linux drivers? by naapo · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I wonder how they plan to get the hardware specifications for the necessary drivers from Apple. Booting Linux is not very useful, if you can't access most of the peculiar hardware in the iPhone.

    1. Re:Linux drivers? by betterunixthanunix · · Score: 3, Insightful

      After a long enough period of time, yes, they will succeed. However, it is more likely than not that by the time they succeed, a new version will come out, and we will be back to square one.

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      Palm trees and 8
  2. Re:Why we ported Linux OS for iPhone? by harry666t · · Score: 5, Insightful

    What happened to "because it's fun"?