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4 megabytes* ought to be enough for anybody, and if you're any depth into DS homebrew, you probably have a 3in1 which expands it to 8 megabytes. Can it run Lin
by immibis 2y ago
4 megabytes* ought to be enough for anybody, and if you're any depth into DS homebrew, you probably have a 3in1 which expands it to 8 megabytes.
Can it run Linux? Ehhh....... can it run a web server? Absolutely.
* we don't talk about using the 0.6MB VRAM for purposes other than video (even though it should work fine).
- zamadatix 2y agoDSLinux absolutely runs in 4 MB (i.e. w/o a RAM expansion pack), it's just going to take a bit of work to also fit the web server + whatever CGI they wanted without a pack. The EZ-Flash V 3-in-1 actually added a whopping +16 MB (128 Mb) of PSRAM! Growing up I only ever had the +8 MB pack from Opera... what a weird bit of history that browser port was :).
- immibis 2y agoI believe DSLinux is uCLinux, not real Linux. And it has to be, because there's no MMU. Is that PSRAM? For some reason I thought the bigger storage was Flash.
- zamadatix 2y agoI wouldn't say uClinux was any less Linux, over time its features even merged to mainline in the 2.x series, including the ability to run MMU-less in version 2.5.46 https://lwn.net/Articles/14823/ https://lwn.net/Articles/14823/ The EZ-Flash V 3-in-1 also had either 64 MB or 128 MB of NOR flash (depending on the revision) in addition to the 16 MB of PSRAM. There was also some battery backed SRAM for save data.