FreeBSD in the DS?

[Alex Johnson]

Alright. That's all I needed to know, thanks!

On 5/13/06, Jeff Rollin <jeff.rollin at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 14/05/06, Alex Johnson <sixthflyingman at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Yes, the Nintendo kind. It seems more than capable, technologically,
> > of supporting a REAL OS such as FreeBSD, something beyond its standard
> > EPROM startup screen, to me. Is that a supported architecture? And if
> > not, is NetBSD free or open source?
>
>
> There is (definitely) a port of Linux to the NDS, and possibly one of
> NetBSD. I don't think a port of FreeBSD to the platform is on the cards,
> though perhaps one of the devs can correct me on this?
>
> The Linux port appears to be at an early stage; I don't know the status of
> the NetBSD port. However, iirc the NDS is pretty new, so I wouldn't expect
> to be able to run Opera on it just yet.
>
> AFAIK, all BSDs (or at least all the ones you would probably be interested
> in) are open source software.
>
> A google search on "Linux Nintendo DS" or a question posted to the netbsd
> mailing lists (on the site I posted in my early email) will be more
> fruitful
> than more questions on this list, I suspect.
>
> Good luck with it!
>
> Jeff
>
>