[armedslack] Nintendo DS

[Stuart Winter]

Hi

> are there possibilities to run this distro on a Nintendo DS with
> Supercard and enough storage mass plugged into?

I had a quick look at the standard Nintendo DS -- 4MB RAM; the Supercard
adds 256MB.  My initial feeling is that you'd need to put a lot of work
into get Slackware running on this device; it'd be better to stick with
"DSLinux" since it's aimed specifically at the DS.

However, if you're experienced in bootstrapping Linux onto devices then
by all means give it a go -- I'd love to see it running there and
I can help a little bit; *but* in Linux 2.6.30.1:

root at stokely:/usr/src/linux/arch/arm# grep -ri nintendo .
root at stokely:/usr/src/linux/arch/arm#

I don't see any mention of Nintendo in the kernel.org kernel
which in my past experience with ARM, is a big
"KEEP AWAY SPEND YOUR TIME ELSEWHERE" sign ;-) because I've
been burnt before by not having upstream support for my ARM devices.
I see that dslinux have patches against Linux 2.6.14 in their git tree
though:
http://dslinux.gits.kiev.ua/trunk/linux-2.6.x/arch/arm/Kconfig

*but* I can warn you already that ARMedslack's glibc has a minimal
Kernel version os 2.6.22, so you'd need to rebuild glibc.
However, if you *did* decide to give it a go and got yourself a Kernel
for the nintendo DS, I could build a glibc that required an earlier
Kernel.

But all that said, the NintendoDS has a very slow ARM cpu, so that
alone would lose my interest ;-)

-- 
Stuart Winter
Slackware ARM: www.armedslack.org