Re: Dreamcast Linux - Info, how much it would cost to get it going, etc.

[Paul M. <le...@li...>]

On Sun, Jan 21, 2007 at 07:06:53PM -0600, nick thompson wrote:
>  I am wondering how much it would cost to get all of the appropriate 
> equipment to run dreamcast linux. There was an ide adapter that was 
> homemade if I recall correctly from years back?? Anyway, any pointers or 
> especially information from anyone actually running it at the moment 
> would be wonderful.
> 
The more compelling question would be, why bother? That little RAM and a
direct-mapped cache was painful all of these years ago too, and things
haven't gotten any smaller over time.

Your best bet would be serial console and fetching a BBA for nfsroot. If
you really feel like resurrecting the maple code, you can always go that
route with the pvr2fb console as well.

I wouldn't hold out any hope for the IDE adapter. Everything that even
got near the expansion port was nothing but a horrid hack (GAPSPCI is a
brilliant example), and you're not going to magically get any faster I/O
or intelligent IRQ routing over the port regardless of what's hanging off
of it.

As others have suggested, the landisk/lantank is a good compromise, and
there are also various SH7751R-based routers floating around that are
fairly easily acquirable.