Re: Porting NetBSD to the Nintendo 3DS

Paul Walker <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.ports.arm
Message-ID <[email protected]> 
On 11/29/24 12:44, Lloyd Parkes wrote:
> Maybe make the _software_ interface between the kernel and the security
> co-processor look like virtio(4)? I'm going to guess that the virtio
> interface is designed to have a low overhead and high performance. It
> might even be machine independent meaning you only need to implement
> the ld(4) driver for the storage.

That is the current approach that the Nintendo 3DS fork of Linux uses. I 
could probably use their implementation of firm9 as a placeholder while 
porting the kernel.

https://github.com/linux-3ds/arm9linuxfw

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Paul W.
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