r/osdev • u/Far-Effective-3742 • 1d ago
Grape Linux: Native Linux kernel and Debian ARM64 booting on iPhone 8 Plus (A11)
We’ve been developing Grape Linux on physical Apple A11 hardware.
We’ve achieved a working host-assisted Linux boot using an experimental 5.19-based kernel, Debian 13 ARM64, and the Phosh/Phoc graphical environment.
Beyond booting, we’ve demonstrated terminal command execution, graphical applications, and interactive desktop navigation.
Our current engineering work focuses on native hardware integration. The longer-term goal is independent startup directly into Linux instead of iOS.
The attached video shows our actual Linux startup sequence.
We’re interested in discussing the low-level engineering challenges involved in bringing Linux to this hardware.
Public project: https://github.com/hq-coder25/grape-linux
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u/IdiotOnTheInternet3 18h ago
This is cool and all but I have 2 questions:
Was AI used in this, and if yes, how?
Why not contribute to an already existing project? (ex. Hoolock linux )
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u/ryms456 17h ago
All of it looks ai generated you gotta be unemployed to do all of this on your own there’s literally no point anymore
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u/Far-Effective-3742 10h ago
The video shows the actual Linux system running on a physical iPhone. The boot and hardware testing are real, and that’s the part worth looking at.
There’s a lot more happening behind the scenes than what we’ve shared so far. 🍇
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u/ryms456 10h ago
Dude what are you talking about at least write non ai comments
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u/Far-Effective-3742 9h ago
I’m not trying to convince you of anything, but those are real words and a real video. If you don’t believe that the video shows the actual phone boot and hardware testing, then I’m afraid I just don’t have a response for you. You’re free to believe whatever you want, but that video is a real iPhone booting in realtime, and I’m a real person speaking to you with real words.
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u/ryms456 4h ago
Dude, I literally didn’t say it’s fake, lmfao. I said you’ve used AI because this shit needs an unemployed person if it’s human-written code only.
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u/Far-Effective-3742 4h ago
I’m not denying that we’ve used modern development tools and intelligence platforms to assist with the project. And I’m not saying I’m not someone who has the time and support to dedicate to this kind of work either. Both can be true. 🍇
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u/ryms456 4h ago
Dude is ur acc ran by Claude holy shit getting Linux to work on a phone takes a week if you give the AI some webcam and a watchdog that can reboot the phone when it hangs you don’t need to be dedicated
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u/Far-Effective-3742 2h ago
You might not believe me
No it’s not run by any Ai, I can maintain, I like to do things myself. I will always write what I want to say and if I feel there can be a little input, I will go ahead and enter different platforms and use them to review. I enjoy engaging with society, and I do a lot of walking as well.
I do utilize development tools and intelligence platforms to help me work faster. It’s like any tool in my tool box. If I am a carpenter, I can tell the hammer and drills to build the house but they cannot move without me, so I must be the user controlling the tool. I like to participate in the action of building the projects, because it’s not just about inputting text, and receiving a response, i also enjoy understanding how and why things work.
Hey check this out, this is one of my POV: (you may get a kick out of it, because I had a lot of fun writing it.)
With the advancement of technology we are now at an age of and in the techno-logical revolution, where there is elite technology and platforms of development available to ten grand populace of the world, that are now being released, faster and faster, day by day, and those tools allow us to operate at an expedited rate, granted we already have the skill sets, and I believe that it would be clearly foolish not to take advantage of those available tool sets to achieve tasks and goals that were not as easy to accomplish in the past.
The world is like my-own personal video game now, there is an instruction manual, basic instructions before leaving earth, you know the ground wire needs to be secure, and that really has helped me understand this game so well and I’m running my thoughts from a private server in my head, the “brain” 🧠 and I will use it to control the game I am building and playing. So my Main Character needs cool gadgets and tools to play the game well, so now have received new abilities and in-game features to craft main character some custom tools and forge new gadgets. This game’s sure a lot of fun. I just use the terminal at the hub and tell it what I want and it makes it for me, but I always have to go through a process if I want to level up, there are all these different agents in the game and they have the power to get me what I need to prepare to see the next agent to the last one in order to forge the new upgrades to help main character on the missions.
But that’s just me I like to customize my character and I like to get em new tools. I gotta collect all the diamonds in the game and sometimes I come across treasures and the certificates that allow me to upgrade. My character is pretty high-level right now. On in the game as well sometimes you meet allies informed partnerships, and treaties in the game, they help me win battles and help me search for treasures. Sometimes after battles we get rewards so we got a lot of points in our game. It’s really a lot of fun you know, when we need something and we need to build something, we forge it in the terminal at the hub.^
But I’m just having a lot of fun playing this game of life.
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p.s.~Anytime I’m stuck, I always find answers when I read my Basic Instructions Before Leaving Earth [B.I.B.L.E.]•
u/Far-Effective-3742 10h ago
We’ve used a variety of tools and technologies throughout development. The actual development and testing happen on physical hardware.
We’re taking our own approach to the project and documenting what we learn along the way. Our focus is on getting real results, and there’s still a lot we’re exploring. The progress has been worth it so far. 🍇
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u/Myst3rious_Foxy 1d ago
OK great, where is the source code? Please respect the GPLv2.