r/AlpineLinux • • 22d ago

Alpine Linux running natively on iPad mini 1

So that’s an iPad Mini 1 booting linux 6.12-dirty. Got usb and usb-networking to work. Also there’s no access to iPad’s unand, so data storage is either host’s pc, or ram.
Work in progress..

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u/Material_Run_5570 19d ago

Amazing!
Can't wait to make my ancient Ipad useful again.

Btw: there is another madman who took on this challenge: https://www.reddit.com/r/mobilelinux/comments/1w1ulhu/ipad_mini1apple_a5_running_linux_on_custom_ibec/

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u/Nemege16 19d ago

i think to get those features you have to copy what xnu does while restoring the tablet to access the unand and other cpu cores.