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mizu
Services / GPU emulation / loader for apps to run under Horizon Linux; adapted from the yuzu emulator (by kentjhall)
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Armbian Linux build framework generates custom Debian or Ubuntu image for x86, aarch64, riscv64 & armhf
Otherwise, the real current benefit of this project is that, since it is based on yuzu, there’s OpenGL support and generally support for interfacing with hardware under Linux. Based on this thread https://github.com/skyline-emu/skyline/issues/119 it sounds like skyline only supports Vulkan and has a lot of Android-specific stuff, so it would take time to get things running on Linux, and even then, passing Vulkan through on a macOS VM is likely farther away than OpenGL.
In addition to OS support in handling Horizon system calls, a Switch program needs to be able to communicate with a number of system services that handle things like input, audio, graphics, etc. Rather than reinvent the wheel, I figured the easiest approach would be to take the open-source yuzu emulator and gut out the things I didn’t need (namely, kernel / CPU emulation), essentially keeping only the system services, GPU emulation, and app loader. This necessitated a custom system call interface to interface with kernel, and a custom Linux binary format for the loader to work with. I also decided (perhaps unnecessarily) to deviate from yuzu’s model and have each system service run persistently in it’s own thread, which made my reorganization considerably more involved.
https://github.com/xerpi/vita2hos/commits/master huh? 15 days ago latest commits .
If you still want to use patched kernel, then I suggest to cread patches and merge it in Armbian. May be not now, but when project will be more mature. I'm using Armbian and many friends in SBC community use it. Armbian anyway used patched kernel, already has build system (CI) and wide userbase. If/When you decided to create patches to Armbian - ping me, I'll try to help with it.