Linux On Gba

[acrimonious]

So i've got Linux running on an iPaq, a Dreamcast and of course my fantastic GP32 and appeared to have developed a habit along the way.

I've heard stories, some of which i found to be complete hoaxes, about running Linux on the GBA.

Anyone got any links/experience they could share on the topic?

Best (read: only) one i've found so far is here: http://wwwhsse.fh-hagenberg.at/Studierende/hse02006/uclgba/

Cheers

 

[Tidus]

it work fine on GP32 and you can even get a keyboard ;p
with the sooooooo cheap price of the excellent G32 Blu in Liksang i would advice you to make the move & come to join us ;p at less you would be sure to enjoy Linux on the way ;p

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[Tristan]

Well, I mean, it's kind of usefull on the GP32. It can display HTML, PDF, play Flash etc. etc. But the GBA?! The GBA has almost no memory (About 0.5MB RAM), so it can't play shit... Correct me if I'm wrong

 

[TeDaDeS]

Well, I mean, it's kind of usefull on the GP32. It can display HTML, PDF, play Flash etc. etc. But the GBA?! The GBA has almost no memory (About 0.5MB RAM), so it can't play shit... Correct me if I'm wrong

Don't forget the cpu isn't running 166MHz, and you should have a flash-card (but who hasn't <_< )

And it has a smaller screen, and didn't it have less colors ?

But I guess you could do something with it, but less then on the GP32.

 

[Keithmcfc]

Linux is on the dreamcast?!?!

have you got a direct link to the files????

me wants!!

 

[foog]

id like to mess around w/ this. sounds cool. i cant really figure out how to use it....... what do you dl for the gba?

heres a link to dc linux....

http://www.dchomebrew.org/linuxdc.shtml

 

[acrimonious]

with the sooooooo cheap price of the excellent G32 Blu in Liksang i would advice you to make the move & come to join us ;p at less you would be sure to enjoy Linux on the way ;p

I already have, as mentioned in my first post.

Well, I mean, it's kind of usefull on the GP32. It can display HTML, PDF, play Flash etc. etc. But the GBA?! The GBA has almost no memory (About 0.5MB RAM), so it can't play shit... Correct me if I'm wrong smile.gif

The crapper the console, the funner the challenge i say.

id like to mess around w/ this. sounds cool. i cant really figure out how to use it....... what do you dl for the gba?

I don't know, that site is confusing as hell, it just seems to ramble on about the architechture of the GBA and not about actually getting uClinux on the damn thing.

That's why i'm posting here, to see if anyone has any more info or links to it.

 

[Wolfsclaw]

Well, I mean, it's kind of usefull on the GP32. It can display HTML, PDF, play Flash etc. etc. But the GBA?! The GBA has almost no memory (About 0.5MB RAM), so it can't play shit... Correct me if I'm wrong

software doesnt have to be run through RAM, everything can be launched from flash-cart.... much faster than smc
and most guys have 16MB or 32MB flash-carts.