iPhone finally running Linux

December 1, 2008 · Print This Article

Lately iPhone owners who enjoy hacking or jailbreaking their iPhones have had plenty of different ways to do it. We are astonished to find out that the iPhone has now be able to run Linux.

The Linux 2.6 kernel has been ported the Apple’s iPhone, iPhone 3G as well as the first generation iPod Touch. AS with all first advancements that is still just a rough draft of the port Even though the alternate operating system is running on the iPhone, many

drivers are lost.

So far the development team has managed to get a serial driver, frame buffer driver, serial by USB driver and Interrupts. MMU Clock, ect. They additionally have -only support for the NAND, but it has not been ported by yet. In the future we will see support for sound, accelerometer, baseband support, touchscreen, write support for the NAND and wireless networking,

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[Via LinuxOniPhone]

[Source] Shawn Brown

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