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

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

[Mick]

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Hi All,

In the hope of some of you being more experienced around Apple devices, I 
thought of asking here first.

I've come across an AppleTV 1 box and been searching the Interwebs for gentoo 
related info.  At present I only intend to use it as a NAS box and VPN 
gateway.  Later on I may use it as a media server with Kodi, but first things 
first, what is the recommended up to date method to install Gentoo on it?

I have come across these rather outdated pages which advise to use a ATV-
Bootloader USB Stick, but I am not sure if this would be necessary these days 
with various UEFI LiveISOs around:

http://kodi.wiki/view/Archive:HOW-TO:Install_Gentoo_and_XBMC_on_Apple_TV_1

https://github.com/davilla/atv-bootloader

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Regards,
Mick

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

[Stroller]

> On Sat, 26 March 2016, at 2:18 pm, Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> …  but I am not sure if this would be necessary these days 
> with various UEFI LiveISOs around:

That sounds reasonable. The 1st gen appears to be x86, so I'd suck it and see.

I would try booting with a SystemRescueCD boot stick and, if that works, make a dd image of the existing system. Then you've always got a place to fall back on if everything goes wrong.

I haven't installed Gentoo on an ATV, but having installed Gentoo quite a few times on a variety of devices I recommend you just treat it like any other x86 box and try it. If you can boot it and make a dd image of the original drive then you have nothing to fear, because you can always restore back to where you started.

Stroller.

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

[James]

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



> I've come across an AppleTV 1 box and been searching the Interwebs 
> for gentoo  related info.  
> http://kodi.wiki/view/Archive:HOW-TO:Install_Gentoo_and_XBMC_on_Apple_TV_1

> https://github.com/davilla/atv-bootloader


Hello Mick,

I just ran across these busybox archives and thought you might
peruse the links for info. 

'Buildroot: latest "target/device/Atmel" tree'

https://git.busybox.net/


Also, follow those folks by name when googling as new projects 
often have old, familiar  hack(ers) underneath.


hth,
James

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

[James]

James <wireless <at> tampabay.rr.com> writes:


> I just ran across these busybox archives and thought you might
> peruse the links for info. 
> https://git.busybox.net/

Sorry,I grabbed the wrong text::

~jacmet/git/atvtool AppleTV utility program jacmet

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

James

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

[Mick]

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On Thursday 31 Mar 2016 17:32:25 James wrote:
> James <wireless <at> tampabay.rr.com> writes:
> > I just ran across these busybox archives and thought you might
> > peruse the links for info.
> > https://git.busybox.net/
> 
> Sorry,I grabbed the wrong text::
> 
> ~jacmet/git/atvtool AppleTV utility program jacmet
> 
> https://git.busybox.net/~jacmet/git/atvtool/
> 
> James

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.
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Mick

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[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