Thread: Nintendo Switch Runs Linux
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2018-04-27 , 20:10
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Originally Posted by nthn View Post
Given the compact form factor, it might work well with Sailfish on it. I will click 'Thanks!' on every post of whoever creates a fully working Sailfish port.
Actually, I was looking the other day and I discovered that there is support in mainline Linux for several major commercial games consoles:

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux...cast_defconfig
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux...s/gamecube.dts
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux...ot/dts/wii.dts
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux...ot/dts/ps3.dts

There's also a WIP Wii U port (not yet mainlined):
https://gitlab.com/linux-wiiu/linux-wiiu#wii-u-linux

This is quite impressive when you consider that these devices were never built to run Linux in the first place (apart from the PS3). Compare that to Android devices which are based on Linux - how many of these have been mainlined? Armdroid really has become the new Wintel - the anti-Linux.

I'm not interested in proprietary OSs (or thanks) so I won't be doing a Sailfish port but I still have a few of these consoles lying around so a Maemo 7 port could be interesting, for publicity purposes if nothing else. Nexus 5 comes first though.
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