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-----Original Message----- From: owner-m...@openbsd.org [mailto:owner-m...@openbsd.org] On Behalf Of Gilles Chehade Sent: 18 September 2009 12:22 To: Jacob Yocom-Piatt Cc: misc@openbsd.org Subject: Re: OT: Iphone with OpenBSD hehe, following a link from a link from thelinuxoniphone blog, I ran into this: http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=iphone made my day ;-) Gilles On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 05:10:49AM -0500, Jacob Yocom-Piatt wrote: > Alvaro Mantilla Gimenez wrote: > >I just found this page: > > > >http://linuxoniphone.blogspot.com/2008/06/why-iphone-linux.html > > > >I don't have any idea about how/where to start. Maybe Theo can put some > >light here...I think my developer skills are far to be good enough but, > >hey...I would like to try !! > > > > > > > getting openbsd working on an iphone would be a pretty serious > undertaking and would require a lot of man hours that aren't currently > available. you have to remember that the project is mostly driven by > donated developer time. > > if you have >100K USD and are committed you might be able to make it > happen. there would have to be a lot of reverse engineering on drivers > and there is no reason to expect apple wouldn't change the chipsets > across versions to make minute optimizations on cost. assuming you could > get all this code written there are many man hours that go into keeping > the arch working properly on an ongoing basis. > > there is no doubt this would be sweet but you have to be realistic when > considering the amount of work it would take to make this happen. there > are >10 mln iphones in circulation so there is no shortage of machines > > > >Regards, > > > > Alvaro > > > >beowuff escribis: > > > >>>Reading the article posted on undeadly.org: > >>>http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1393496 > >>> > >>>I was thinking it would be cool to have an Iphone running OpenBSD... > >>> > >>>Imagine that: the most secure phone in the planet :-P > >>> > >>Man, I have an old 1st gen iPhone just sitting there... I would so put > >>OpenBSD on it. Unfortunately, I wouldn't know where to begin :( > -- Gilles Chehade freelance developer/sysadmin/consultant http://www.poolp.org
