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UcLinux PSP Port - Proof of Concept

Posted Apr 6, 2006 at 5:24AM EST by QJ Staff

Listed in: Hacks & Exploits, Homebrew Development, News Tags: psp exploits, psp hacks

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Freedom Fry has managed to get a proof of concept version of Linux running on the PSP, by making a small bootloader made with the open source PSPSDK, and porting UcLinux for the PSP.

Freedom Fry said "This is a Release for all the non believers and elitist "hackers" in the "scene". After some weeks of hacking i made it. Yet another time the REAL breakthrough stuff comes from FRANCE!!"

The PSP port of UcLinux doesn't actually do anything useful yet, as once it gets up to the 'kernel panic' stage, it hangs. Freedom Fry has also promised a release of the source code for all you hackers out there in a few days time.

It has been tested on firmware version 1.5, but will not work on 2.0+ because it requires kernel access. This does there is a chance of bricking your PSP if something goes wrong, although Freedom Fry himself has ran it many times without problems. The download is available for anybody that wants it, but I advise against it for anyone that doesn't have a good range of expertise when it comes to these sorts of things; and remember - there's still a slight chance of bricking. This is a proof of concept, and not a fully functional version of Linux.

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This is brill!!! Go to www.callie.net and then go to the link says "Downgrader for 2.6". This uses Super Bock Eloader GTA Expoilt for PSP.this excellent but when doing it you have a 0.5% chance of bricking your psp because you have to write to flash0. This only works for 2.6 and if you got 2.0+ Firmware. You have to upgrade 1st. Thank me later... Good luck.

# explanation please — rider2k5 2006-04-06 07:39

Ok I have to admit im no expert when it comes to linux, in fact I dont knwo what it is at all. Could someone please post a quick explanation or brief description of what this is and what is can do for the psp scene?

# This is Sk8kidK — Guest 2006-04-06 07:42

you gays are so dumb

# .. — GiveHaste 2006-04-06 07:46

Linux is a free operating system which was created by Linus Torvalds. There are many type of Linux OSes, which are called Distros.

And the coward at 11:41, you can go ***** yourself kthx. 3.0 isn't even released yet, so stop being a *****got.

# .. — Guest 2006-04-06 07:48

» ..

Linux is a free operating system which was created by Linus Torvalds. There are many type of Linux OSes, which are called Distros.

And the coward at 11:41, you can go ***** yourself kthx. 3.0 isn't even released yet, so stop being a *****got.

by GiveHaste, at Apr 06, 2006 at 11:46AM

*************** *************** ******

Do u wana be *****ed in the ass? u *****ing gay ass homo *****ing tard

# omfg.... — Crazy_8 2006-04-06 07:53

Why do we have Anonymous Coward turned on here? WHY?! This should be registered accounts only, there are just too many idiots abusing Anonymous Coward for it to even be worth having such a thing!

# ... — Guest 2006-04-06 07:55

France sucks... I'll register next time, right now I've got to go to work. Wait, maybe I'll just sit at home and play psp. Than when I get fired for skipping work, I'll riot against the government. Socialist pigs...

# hmm — Guest 2006-04-06 07:56

nocomment

# And now a message from King Poubar. — Guest 2006-04-06 07:56

Considering this is *suppose* to be a comunity, and this site is *suppose* to give us news.

Why the hell do people have to fight in the comments?

Its childish and pathetic.

As for the Linux port, I hope its real and I hope to see it working in the future.

# 3.0 my ass indeed — Guest 2006-04-06 07:58

whered u get 3.0 from then?

# Blah. — GiveHaste 2006-04-06 08:00

His 12 year old imagination.

# wana be *****ed indeed — Guest 2006-04-06 08:01

24. » 3.0 my ass indeed

whered u get 3.0 from then?

by Anonymous Coward, at Apr 06, 2006 at 11:58AM

*************** *************** ***********

you want to be *****ed in da ASS indeed.

# gpl? — Guest 2006-04-06 08:11

isn't it a violation of the gpl when he distributes the binary without giving away the source?

# 2.6 Downgrade on http://www.callie.net/ — Guest 2006-04-06 08:15

Does this realy work or is this $h!t

# .. — GiveHaste 2006-04-06 08:18

No, its a link to a porn site.

# ... — Guest 2006-04-06 08:22

This site has gone to hell... no wonder homebrew has died off with all the idiots that post crap responses..

# France — Guest 2006-04-06 08:27

Why don't they just change their countries flag to be all white and let it blow in the air.

# PSP GEEKS — Guest 2006-04-06 08:35

Hi use PSP GEEKS that want homebrew on psp. You r all sad as homebrew is crap and useless. Go out and have a banter not being a geek checking this website every hour. U R ALL SAD. GET A LIFE. GO OUT. GEEKS

# Oi u >>... — Guest 2006-04-06 08:38

Don't call me an idiot. Homebrew died off get a grip. Geek. I was only having a laugh with that websote. Don't cry 4 homebrew. GEEK.

# sure "geek" — Guest 2006-04-06 08:43

oh, so, we're supposed to spend 40€ in a game like you do? sure, i'll stop being a geek when i win the lottery XD

# Nice! — IchigoKurosaki 2006-04-06 08:55

Nice, Can't wait for a full version and my PSP... Will KDE and Gnome be ported over?

# France Breakthrough lolololol — Guest 2006-04-06 09:04

Last time france had a breakthrough was with frogs legs! And what use are they? Last time I had them they kept kicking the rest of my food off my plate!!!!

# this worked on 2.5 until — Guest 2006-04-06 09:43

this worked on 2.5 until i got the kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 08:01

# France — Guest 2006-04-06 09:45

*cough*

downgrader+ firmware launcher+ GTA on 1.5 came from France

f*cktards

# GPL! — Guest 2006-04-06 09:49

This _VERY_ much violates the GPL. I unfortunately do not know who to report this to, but it is AGAINST THE LICENSE to not release the soruce WITH the binary. No matter what.

# already done? — Guest 2006-04-06 09:54

didnt they already get a distro of linux to run on psp the same way they did windows 95? cant we just built upon that version of linux that worked rather than from the ground up?... what ever happens i hope it has a nice GDE like KDE or gnome, possibly even windowmaker :)

# Jeez, people... — FreePlay 2006-04-06 10:05

It's a fake, OK? It was a joke. All it does is printf() a bunch of text. I even know who made it, but for his sake I'm not going to mention him. It was a JOKE. It doesn't violate the GPL, and it's FAKE.

# Alas... — Guest 2006-04-06 10:27

It's childish cr@p like this that will prevent the PSP from becoming a serious ubiquitous platform.

# If it runs in eloader, its fake — Guest 2006-04-06 10:41

I wont even try it, because it smells like fake, but please go ahead and try it with eloader, if it works, you know that it must be fake, since a running linux kernel would require kernel mode

# I feel sick — Guest 2006-04-06 10:59

of readin so much crap and spam here, shesh grow up a bit...

# ... — Guest 2006-04-06 11:13

Um, no offense kyle m., but how the hell did you become a blog writer for the site?

Your writing style is absolutely horrible.

# #5 , you are dumb — Guest 2006-04-06 11:55

#5 , you are dumb

France makes high quality cheese but that is not there expertise and Cheese is what american media try associate France with.

Another thing is that you tell that they surrender in wars? , okay they're pacific ( now ) and it's bets cause war only brings trouble and is the worst things that humans can think of. And they din't have such a coward history as you may say , Napoleon Bonaparte din't surrender on battles , he won all except the las 2 and you know why? Cause When he marched his 480,000 troop army to Russia the Czar of Russia hid and the Napoleon waited to declare victory against Russia but the harsh and cold winters came and they had no supplies or food and they had to return to France. At the end only 10,000 survived and in poor conditions and there Europe makes the 5th or 7th coallition ( forgot which ) to end Napoleon's conquest once and for all and the las battle was at sea. Napoleon was only a great military strategist on soil but not at sea and he practically fough with youngsters on his side of around 10 years making it an easy victory for the European coallition but even at worst times Napoleon din't surrendered. And at the battle in America where the spanish and french fought against England to get british forces out , even though France lost Canada to England and Spain lost Florida , still they din't surrenderred and fought. What about when the americans had the war for the independance of the 13 colonies , France helped them alot and did France said "England has too much control here , we shouldn't halp the americans" no , they did not and they helped and the 13 colonies got their independance. And at the times of the French revolution or the day it started ( Bastille day ) , civilians against the army but they did not surrender and at the end won and cut the heads of the french monarchs.

Another thing is that you cannot call french people monkeys cause they are very smart people , and respect people from other nationalities not for someone to mock them.

I live in P.R. which is the only colony left of the USA and here we suffer discrimination from the north americans that live here and I can tell you that it would really hurt you if someone discriminated against you.

# agreed. — Guest 2006-04-06 12:37

but then they wouldn't have said it unless the guy who made this hadn't bigged up france. if someone did that from the USA then there'd be thousands of ppl from Europe countering it with stereotypes, including the French.

As for this prog, it's fake. You can tell by the filesize and the fact they haven't included any external files. Better luck next time. Is it me, or are there not many decent coders with a PSP out there? If there were, this port would have been done ages ago. It's been done for nearly every other handheld. Not that I'm complaining, the guys we do have really know their stuff, it just seems the PSP isn't attractive to most coders :S

# psp uclinux — Guest 2006-04-06 13:17

its not neccessarily fake.. the EBOOT is 1MB large.. thats way enough to store a compressed Uclinux kernel in an internal static Buffer. Theres no need at all to have an external file. Infact it would be rather cumbersom to have to read it off the memstick and load it to mem...

# stop dissing france — Guest 2006-04-06 13:31

You guys know who yoyofr is right?

(SNES TYL)

Sheesh, think a bit before you comment on france (always the americans...)

~dan

mayfieldshares.com

# To Kyle M. — IchigoKurosaki 2006-04-06 14:40

Sorry, Kyle M. you are retarded there is no way this can brick your PSP the is just another way to scare people away from Linux (Power to Linus) In order for this to brick your PSP Flash0 and Flash1 has to be unmounted and mounted for write access which is not need for simply loading Linux...

# well... — Guest 2006-04-06 15:48

well atleast somone else wants linux on the psp. i hope it happens (working) some time in the future. why? just 'cause.

# No GPL violation. — Guest 2006-04-06 17:39

No, this does not violate the GPL. The GPL does not require source to be distributed with the binaries; it only requires source to be *available.* Posting a binary-only download and promising to package the source soon is not a violation unless he refuses when somebody emails him to ask for it. All GPL violations should be reported to the FSF, who would simply laugh at you if you reported this project.

# - — cyanide 2006-04-06 17:48

oh ffs man !

its fake...

we checked it in the forums, and it was proven that this is fake !

please get it off the front page

# PSP-Updates Experts at work! — Guest 2006-04-06 21:23

No need to say more...

# I am 12 years old but I have an opinion!! — Guest 2006-04-07 01:25

I have been using Linux Operating systems for almost 15 yeara now and I assure you this is no fake. Linux is the key to downgrading 2.6 Psp's to 1.5.

# - — cyanide 2006-04-07 01:53

@#55: yeah sure...i believe ya ! NOT !!

youre 12 and have been using linux for 15 years ?! lol

# chill — deanaw22 2006-04-07 03:21

why are you all *****in about something that know one is 100% sure about, wait and see, if its real then good for the guy that created it and all the people that will benefit, if not then tough look...

All im saying is wait and see instead turning this site into a tar pit full of flamers, lol

(That sounded cool)

CALM DOWN!!!

# :> — Guest 2006-04-07 03:37

@#56: I believe because linux users does not have life!

# linux gamers — Guest 2006-04-07 23:54

lol, and gamers do have a life? ;)

# Either way — NeroMaverick 2006-04-09 19:33

Fake or not, its still nice to hear that an actual supported OS might possibly be running on a psp, look at the desire for all of you to actually have Linux on a psp. If this is fake, i give the fakers commendation for giving the people that might actually do it motivation. We need to look on the bright side of things, fake or not it surely has inserted the notion of "Linux on PSP" into all of our minds.

# Anything to manipulate the credit for the original — Guest 2006-04-10 19:19

via "Freedom Fry"?

Via psphacks.net. Try that. Also, try putting where you got that picture from? MY CELL PHONE?!?

Good work again qj.

# keep your comments or.... — Guest 2006-04-21 09:16

just trying it...

- starting through IR shell 1.4:error

- starting from PSP shell: gets till "kernel Panic.."

question: can a booted image behave as described below?

so, big boys discussing everything except this port:

do you have an opinion? can you get in contact with the guy who posted it? have you at least tried it? no?!?! and why not?

if it is fake (yeah.. the guy preferred to work on the logo but did not manage to get it fully booted...) then there is still bochs and maybe DSL or sthng MUCH smaller...

BUT: for bochs first we would need to have an OSK implemented....

so, instead of sending 50 comments about nothing and letting thousands of people read it....

if you can not help, pls...

as mr. 32 said: go out and live, before it is late. m.

# uClinux incompleted — romania_nboy 2010-07-13 20:53

hy im from romania end uCLinux its NOT FAKE,its INCOMPLETED

end maybe he needed more time to think about how will be uCLinux

,,,end i appreciate hes work

# RE: UcLinux PSP Port - Proof of Concept — by kns 2011-04-03 15:14

una mierda tu link

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