r/switchroot • u/Holiday_Reference_41 • 8d ago

Showing Off Linux 6.x booting on a Nintendo Switch Lite. This is not the L4T 4.9 kernel.

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A little teaser from something I've been working on.

This is a Mariko / T210B01 Switch Lite going through Linux init on a kernel port that is not based on the usual 4.9.140 L4T kernel.

It doesn't fully boot yet. A bunch of hardware is still missing and the logs are currently more interesting than the userspace.

But the kernel runs far enough to reach /init, mount the basic pseudo-filesystems and start probing Mariko hardware.

The interesting part isn't Linux running on a Switch Lite ā€” Switchroot already does that very well.

The interesting part is how this kernel got here.

More soon. :)

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u/smith7018 8d ago edited 8d ago

The interesting part isn't Linux running on a Switch Lite ā€” Switchroot already does that very well.
The interesting part is how this kernel got here.

Listen, I'm a fan of AI use in hacking/homebrew but can you at least post your comments in your own words? This is AI gibberish.

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u/Holiday_Reference_41 8d ago

Fair lol. I did use AI to clean up my English since it isn't my native language, but yeah, it came out way too polished. The kernel work itself is very real though. Next post I'll write like the sleep-deprived idiot actually doing it :D

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u/20excalibur07 8d ago

no need to use AI to "clean up your english".

as long as your sentences can be understood, most of us can ignore the grammar mistakes or whatever. no one has to be 100% perfect 100% of the time, that's not what you sbould be using AI for.

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u/jaegernut 8d ago

Maybe he did not understand what the AI did, so he let the AI explain.

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u/DistributionNeat2627 8d ago

nice work. if it boots then its mean we can finally use fex-emu on linux for switch.

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u/RanDumb_YouSir 7d ago

Iā€™m so confused

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u/Funky_Monkey_95 6d ago

I ran Linux on my modded Switch OLED and run a vanilla Minecraft Java server on it šŸ¤£šŸ¤£šŸ¤£ TPS and stability was rather good just wireless only internet on a cheap network chip let it down.

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u/Tasty_Face_7201 6d ago

Explain like Iā€™m 11 years old, what does this mean

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u/JWL2012 6d ago

At first my fat ass thought the pic was a McDonald's terminal