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Re: Calling all Linux Kernel developers!
« Reply #1185 on: June 22, 2015, 08:05:41 am »
WOW, this is unexpected. Well done! How does it run? I assume it's not really at a usable speed.

I do wonder why "Minor compilation changes for older GCC versions" was necessary, binary literals have been supported since ages.
You should definitely update your SDK and toolchain!

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Re: Calling all Linux Kernel developers!
« Reply #1186 on: June 22, 2015, 10:24:03 am »
Indeed congrats :)
News articles on community websites (and probably others) coming soon... :)
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Re: Calling all Linux Kernel developers!
« Reply #1187 on: June 22, 2015, 11:38:49 am »
WOW, this is unexpected. Well done! How does it run? I assume it's not really at a usable speed.

I do wonder why "Minor compilation changes for older GCC versions" was necessary, binary literals have been supported since ages.
You should definitely update your SDK and toolchain!

Boot up is slow, taking ~3-5 minutes (Although I believe I can speed it up), but after most of the core services are starting the system is actually pretty usable (imagine an HTC Dream running at half-speed), making this a feasible alternative OS to run on the calculator.

And regarding the whole "Minor compilation changes for older GCC versions" commit, I at first (embarrassingly) set my $PATH to the wrong arm GCC toolchain location (which I originally thought was the ndless SDK location). After I fixed that, the whole commit was rather useless but I figured I wouldn't revert it just in case...
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Re: Calling all Linux Kernel developers!
« Reply #1188 on: June 22, 2015, 11:40:26 am »
WOW, this is unexpected. Well done! How does it run? I assume it's not really at a usable speed.

I do wonder why "Minor compilation changes for older GCC versions" was necessary, binary literals have been supported since ages.
You should definitely update your SDK and toolchain!

Boot up is slow, taking ~3-5 minutes (Although I believe I can speed it up), but after most of the core services are starting the system is actually pretty usable (imagine an HTC Dream running at half-speed), making this a feasible alternative OS to run on the calculator.

This is awesome! Where is the rootfs stored? I assume it's on an external flashdrive or something.
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Re: Calling all Linux Kernel developers!
« Reply #1189 on: June 22, 2015, 12:08:24 pm »
WOW, this is unexpected. Well done! How does it run? I assume it's not really at a usable speed.

I do wonder why "Minor compilation changes for older GCC versions" was necessary, binary literals have been supported since ages.
You should definitely update your SDK and toolchain!

Boot up is slow, taking ~3-5 minutes (Although I believe I can speed it up), but after most of the core services are starting the system is actually pretty usable (imagine an HTC Dream running at half-speed), making this a feasible alternative OS to run on the calculator.

This is awesome! Where is the rootfs stored? I assume it's on an external flashdrive or something.

Until NAND drivers are working on the new kernel, I opted to put the rootfs on an external USB drive via usb-otg. It currently uses 4 partitions, one for the system, one for userdata, one for the cache, and one for the virtual sd card.

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Re: Calling all Linux Kernel developers!
« Reply #1190 on: June 22, 2015, 01:18:35 pm »
WOW, this is unexpected. Well done! How does it run? I assume it's not really at a usable speed.

Here's a demo video as well:


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Re: Calling all Linux Kernel developers!
« Reply #1191 on: June 22, 2015, 02:22:14 pm »
Thanks for the video - I updated the TI-Planet article :)
And it actually runs faster than what I would have expected!
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Re: Calling all Linux Kernel developers!
« Reply #1192 on: June 22, 2015, 06:44:04 pm »
I saw this yesterday and also thought it was a joke. That's a lot faster than I would have expected, well done. :)

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Re: Calling all Linux Kernel developers!
« Reply #1193 on: June 24, 2015, 06:25:01 am »
Updated at 7th Feb 2013

Can this run Android?

Theoretically, yes but it's too much work for it to be worth it.

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Re: Calling all Linux Kernel developers!
« Reply #1194 on: June 24, 2015, 03:22:52 pm »
This was just brought to my attention and I believe news is in order. I'm a bit too busy with work to post one myself but I'll tag a couple people and see which one does it first
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Re: Calling all Linux Kernel developers!
« Reply #1195 on: June 24, 2015, 03:51:56 pm »
i saw this yesterday but didn't realise it was a huge deal. what had to be done to get it running on top of linux stuff? interface drivers? stripping out bloat processes?

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Re: Calling all Linux Kernel developers!
« Reply #1196 on: June 25, 2015, 05:18:55 pm »
Congratulations on this outstanding achievement, joshumax. Saw it on the main German tech news site earlier today ;)

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Re: Calling all Linux Kernel developers!
« Reply #1197 on: July 07, 2015, 09:07:35 am »
Hello, I have a problem on my ti cx nspire case with android.
When I run it, it load for a little while and then freeze it.
How to remedy it?
Thank you in advance

P.S:
I have a 3.9.1 OS 3.9 and therefore ndl3ss

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Re: Calling all Linux Kernel developers!
« Reply #1198 on: July 09, 2015, 07:13:46 pm »
Wow, this is soooooo amazing. I did not think you could actually run a game on the android port.  Though, it's not that intensive it it?(Unless that's not on the android port?   :hyper:

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Re: Calling all Linux Kernel developers!
« Reply #1199 on: July 16, 2015, 04:15:11 pm »
Hello, I have a problem on my ti cx nspire case with android.
When I run it, it load for a little while and then freeze it.
How to remedy it?
Thank you in advance

P.S:
I have a 3.9.1 OS 3.9 and therefore ndl3ss

Can you describe what's happening while it's loading and where it's freezing? Also, if possible can you send pictures of the problem? I can't really diagnose what's going on without more information...




Wow, this is soooooo amazing. I did not think you could actually run a game on the android port.  Though, it's not that intensive it it?(Unless that's not on the android port?   :hyper:

I posted a video a few posts back of it running the Android SDK game demo "Lunar Lander." (See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Skbuc_pQj9g). It can also run games like Snake rather well; other than that the only real limit is the capability of the hardware, which isn't that high-performance to begin with.


Edit (Eeems): Merged double post
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