Linux on the Atari Jaguar. No, really.

 (cakehonolulu.github.io)

60 points | by cakehonolulu 2 hours ago

3 comments

  • coupdejarnac 1 minute ago
    Surely I must have seen someone do this already on Slashdot like 25 years ago. Cheers for using a recent kernel though, that's neat.
  • cakehonolulu 2 hours ago
    This is a deep dive on what is necessary to get Linux on the 68000-based Atari Jaguar. No specialized hardware/flash carts. All runs within the original hardware vision (2 megabytes of RAM) and gets to a Busybox shell. Linux repository with the changes: https://github.com/cakehonolulu/linux_jag
  • basilikum 38 minutes ago
    How long does it take to boot?
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    • cakehonolulu 31 minutes ago
      About a minute and a half. It varies by 2~ seconds at most. Could possibly be related to how Linux does the calibrate_delay() stuff? (And well, I'm also not too sure on how deterministic it's supposed to be in terms of time).
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      • MPSimmons 20 minutes ago
        Honestly not that far off from my 486 DX2/66 back in the day