FreeBSD ARM on 32-bit Apple Mobile Devices?

[Johannes Lundberg]

On Mon, Apr 30, 2018 at 3:48 PM, ken olson via freebsd-arm <
freebsd-arm at freebsd.org> wrote:

> Recently inherited an iPhone 4S.  Want to only use it for photography and
> audio (no phone or Internet).
>
> Since the 4S is Very hardware challenged would like to reduce the OS load
> as much as possible so am looking for an open-source iOS clone.
> Did find "Project Magenta aims to create open-source iOS clone"
> https://www.theverge.com/2012/6/10/3074746/project-
> magenta-open-source-ios-clone  but nothing recent.
> Had hoped that since all the 32 bit Apple Mobile Devices are now
> unsupported, there would be an interest in utilizing them for application
> specific purposes but to date have not found any groups discussing this.
> Since 32-bit, FreeBSD supports ARMv6 and ARMv7 can FreeBSD ARM run on
> Any 32-bit Apple Mobile Devices?
>

Hi

I will probably be very difficult to run anything on such a locked down
platform. Seem also the iOS clone was meant to run on generic hardware, not
Apple's.

What you could do is maybe try find a rom image from the iOS v4-v5 times
when they distributed the OS as a full rom file. Running an older version
of iOS would surely make your device run smoothly (although not as fun as
putting FreeBSD on it :))
If not, jailbreaking might solve your problem.



> As beginner to FreeBSD ARM tried to search the archive  but to date have
> not found anything relevant.
> Have I missed anything?
> Ken
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