rg351_m8c VS tytools

Is there any way that homebrew for ArkOS (RG351) can be ported over to GarlicOS. Specifically I am wondering what it would take to port over the M8 Tracker frontend m8c for ArkOS to GarlicOS: https://github.com/jasonporritt/rg351_m8c

This is the GitHub with instructions for the teensy: https://github.com/jasonporritt/rg351_m8c

I will! It looks and sounds incredible, and I noticed there is a github page for RG351 devices to make things even easier.

Yeah actually, I found this guide link here and it seems that the programming side was done and tested by the owner. Each Linux system may need porting over but since the code already exists it’s probably multitudes of times easier now. The owner of the GitHub made 3 start types. M8 original, M8 performance and M8 Pulse but I haven’t tested all 3 yet. Overall I believe the teensy allows you to pick up where you left off when turned off and on again so that’s cool. Only thing missing is the touch function.

I bought my RG351V primarily to run the M8 Tracker ( https://github.com/jasonporritt/rg351_m8c ). The install onto ArkOS went OK and I can run the tracker by navigating to the startup script in the new roms directory called "M8".

I got M8 headless working fairly easily using the instructions given on https://github.com/jasonporritt/rg351_m8c although Arkos did not install without problems - the file system expansion script was not completing without error (even though it did in fact complete OK so the error was probably just a warning) and this lead to the device hanging and effectively a boot loop after a forcible hard shutdown. Now I have to work out how to run it without having to drill down through the file app to manually run the M8 start script!

You also don't have to use the Arduino program downloader. There are alternatives such as https://github.com/Koromix/tytools which works great with Teensy.