Linux on the Nintendo GameCube and Wii

Hi!

The framebuffer works now, but the colorspace coversion isn't done yet, 
so everything is green-in-green. The code is in the CVS. (As soon as 
colors work, we'll release a .DOL and a patch.)

I uploaded http://www.gc-linux.org/down/cfbimgblt.c , a quick fix to do 
YUYV (all conversion code by Costis). The problem is: It needs floating 
point, and the linker complains that there are no floating point 
libraries.

The CPU can do floating point - how can I make the compiler generate 
code for the FPU? I found no config option in Linux...

   Michael

Well, testing new version. Things seem to come along nicely. bba initiated
and all that stuff but I noted that the ip adress is not the one used. I
suppose because as theres no config files to edit you just put that as a
placeholder, however when i ping my gc (using the ip i assigned at PSO) i
get

CALL HANDLER
gcif_service: status 00000002
Break

I suppose that means it IS receiving the pings. It also tries to write
something at a  buffer but it is unable to do it. Maybe the filesystem
doesnt work yet?

On 30.01.2004, at 12:41, Javier wrote:
> Well, This is what I got on my may-03 PAL Spanish Gamecube. It ran it 
> well
> until it got stucked at loop: loaded (max devices). Yhen 20 or 30 
> seconds
> later it printed the rest. It's amazing how fast this project is 
> going. I

Prefectly normal, that ancient build didn't support rebooting. Get the 
current .DOL (gc-linux.org/down/zImage.dol).

> loaded the kernel with PSO2.0 . I'd like to note something. If you r 
> using a
> 2 NICs setup you should disconnect the NIC not conected to the 
> gamecube.
> Sometimes PSOload tries to load the data through that NIC and then it 
> can
> load it properly. I tried using PSUL but it didnt boot. More notes, 
> why does
> it mount 16 Ram disks of 4096 instead of mounting one Virtual disk of 
> 32 Mb.
> I dont know a lot of linux but it seems strange to me. Also, using 32 
> Mb of
> RAM means just 8 Mb of Ram available. Pretty tight I think.

I don't know how Linux manages ramdisks, but no memory is allocated if 
it isn't used.

   Michael