| Linux finally loaded onto iPhone! |
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| by Alex Zaharov-Reutt | |
| Saturday, 29 November 2008 | |
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The announcement is celebrated over at the iPhone Dev Team’s blog, but the announcement comes from the LinuxoniPhone Blogspot blog. Here the blog author called “PlanetBeing” says: “I'm pleased to announce that the Linux 2.6 kernel has been ported to Apple's iPhone platform, with support for the first and second generation iPhones as well as the first generation iPod touch. “This is a rough first draft of the port, and many drivers are still missing, but it's enough that a real alternative operating system is running on the iPhone.” PlanetBeing says that iPhone Linux has: - Framebuffer driver - Serial driver - Serial over USB driver - Interrupts, MMU, clock, etc. Openiboot supports (but hasn’t had ported yet): - Read-only support for the NAND What iPhone Linux doesn’t have (yet): - Write support for the NAND - Wireless networking - Touchscreen - Sound - Accelerometer - Baseband support So, what else does PlanetBeing have to say about Linux on the iPhone, and where’s a video showing it all in action? Why, it’s over on page 2. Please read on. |
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