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Emulating an iPod Touch 1G and iPhoneOS 1.0 using QEMU (Part II)

• deleted 4y ago
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• TazeTSchnitzel 4y ago
  Something that surprises me is that iPhone OS could boot in the first place without a working GPU. Do Apple include a software rendering fallback on these devices just in case the GPU is broken? It makes sense for a desktop OS to have one, but why on a mobile OS in release builds?
  • colejohnson66 4y ago
    The original iPhone OS was developed on a separate team from the hardware one, and Jobs siloed them very heavily. It's possible the software team didn't know if they’d have a dedicated GPU. Correct me if I'm wrong though.
    • TazeTSchnitzel 4y ago
      Hmm, the OS makes pretty heavy use of OpenGL ES AFAIK, so I would think that's unlikely.
• kaapipo 4y ago
  https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34095830 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34095830
• xvilka 4y ago
  Are there any plans to mainstream this in QEMU?
• TazeTSchnitzel 4y ago
  dang: What is this a dupe of? It's a new blog post, part 2 rather than part 1.
  • dang 4y ago
    I think that was an error. Sorry for the belated reply! I've removed the [dupe] tag now.