Just woke up in my hotel’s room, I found this fantastic news! Finally, Linux ported to the iPhone! Yeah, now Linux operating system can be ported to the iPhone 2G, iPhone 3G, and first-generation iPod touch platforms. You rock, man!

I’m pleased to announce that the Linux 2.6 kernel has been ported to Apple’s iPhone platform, with support for the first and second generation iPhones as well as the first generation iPod touch. This is a rough first draft of the port, and many drivers are still missing, but it’s enough that a real alternative operating system is running on the iPhone.

What we have:

• Framebuffer driver
• Serial driver
• Serial over USB driver
• Interrupts, MMU, clock, etc.

What we have in openiboot (but hasn’t been ported yet):

• Read-only support for the NAND

What we don’t have (yet!):

• Write support for the NAND
• Wireless networking
• Touchscreen
• Sound
• Accelerometer
• Baseband support

You can see a short narrated video demonstrating iPhone Linux below:

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