[gentoo-user] Re: Anyone running gentoo on AppleTV 1st gen?

[James]

Mick <michaelkintzios <at> gmail.com> writes:


> > > https://git.busybox.net/

> > ~jacmet/git/atvtool AppleTV utility program jacmet

> > https://git.busybox.net/~jacmet/git/atvtool/

> Thanks James, OSMC have developed an easy to install image, which however
> does not have APM enabled to handle the buggy BIOS.  So
> I may be rolling my own kernel for this when I get a minute and/or
> install gentoo if I need to.


Ah, this is fantastic news. Would it be possible to make your efforts,
generic, so that some of the effort and docs might be applicable to anyone
that wanted to put 'gentoo' on a samygo capable TV? [1]  In fact you might
want to google with an additional keyword 'samygo' to see what codes you can
discover to simplify your efforts.  [2]


I guess I'm saying with the proliferations of smart TVs with wifi,
it only makes sense to consolidate this intel into a collection
somewhere. And Samsung makes chips for both TVs and cell phones
that are quite similar:: think exynos. In fact most all cell phones
and smart TVs are consolidating codes onto multi-core arm64 processors,
so it make a ton of sense to me for gentoo to take a 'gentoo on all'
approach to this smorgasbord of arm64 devices. [3]


hth,
James


[1] https://wiki.samygo.tv/index.php5?title=Main_Page

[2] http://ericasadun.com/ftp/AirPlay/

[3]
http://liliputing.com/2013/03/android-tv-box-with-samsung-exynos-4412-quad-core-chip-now-available-for-120.html