For all Linux enthusiasts who were waiting for IPhone & Linux integration here comes a piece of news chunk which may pass a sheer wave of joy. IPhone hacker "Planetbeing" along with his team of hacker contributors Poorlad, Cmw, Saurik , CPICH and Ius has reverse engineered Apple's hardware drivers to get a thing initial port. Video of their work is shown below
The port contains drivers for serial, framebuffer and SerialOverUSB functions. Once OpeniBoot bootloader is installed, it lets iPhone user can choose between booting into the IPhone's native OS, or into a rudimentary linux port's console. When the console comes, user can use USB download a kernel and root filesystem to the phone . Being an initial port , developers plans to integrate support for stuff like accelerometer, WiFi,baseband functions,NAND write, sound and touchscreen. As a next step we may see may be Android being ported on IPhone using OpeniBoot bootloader as iphone-dev.org is luking for Android hackers to contribute for development.
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