New Patches Posted For Booting Linux On The Nintendo Wii U

[phoronix]

Phoronix: New Patches Posted For Booting Linux On The Nintendo Wii U

Last month there were discussions around potentially working to upstream the Linux support for Nintendo's Wii U game console. While there are serious limitations to the support, posted today were the patch series for review providing basic Wii U enablement...

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Wii-U-March-2022-Linux

[Quackdoc]

can't wait for someone to show dolphin running on this xD

[tildearrow]

can't wait for someone to show dolphin running on this xD

Insert PowerPC virtualization here... (oh wait, we still have to emulate the graphics processor)


Also, even if it's impractical to run that Dolphin, here's a Dolphin which definitely runs on the Wii U:

[Eirikr1848]

Alrighty then:

1) Who do I donate my Wii U to?
2) Any cheap / free C/C++ courses to uhhhh get a crash course in Linux driver development? Haha.

(This has an AMD R700 right?)