Great work! Does SMP work on it? I've heard that the implementation is a bit broken on wiiu's cpu Jan 10, 2026 9:54:50 AM Jared McNeill <jmcneill%invisible.ca@localhost>: > Yesterday I committed support for the Nintendo Wii U to NetBSD -current. > > The Wii U is a very nice upgrade from the Wii: > > * CPU is a 1.24GHz tri-core PowerPC (IBM 750 derivative) > * 2GB RAM > * GPU is AMD Radeon (probably R7xx) > * HDMI / composite / component video out > * 4x USB 2.0 ports > * SD card slot > * SATA Blu-ray drive > * Touch screen, buttons, camera integrated into the controller > > To get NetBSD up and running, you need a homebrew-enabled system. You can do this with an SD card and internet connection, no additional hardware required. Follow the instructions for installing Aroma on https://wiiu.hacks.guide to prepare the system for installation. This only needs to be done once. > > Once the system is homebrew-enabled, prepare an SD card with the NetBSD install. I _strongly_ recommend using an A2-class microSD card for this. > > Files required: > > * https://nycdn.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD-daily/HEAD/latest/evbppc/binary/gzimg/nintendo.img.gz > * https://github.com/wiiu-env/fw_img_payload/releases/download/v0.2/fw_img_payload_v0_2.zip > * https://gitlab.com/linux-wiiu/linux-loader/-/jobs/artifacts/master/raw/fw.img?job=loader-build > > To setup the SD card: > > 1) Uncompress nintendo.img.gz and image the SD card using your > favourite image writing software (dd, balenaEtcher, etc). > 2) Mount the new FAT file-system that was written to the SD card. You > should see a directory named "linux" and a file named "netbsd" in the > root directory. Make a new directory named "wiiu". > 3) Uncompress fw_img_payload_v0_2.zip and copy "payload.elf" to the > "wiiu" directory. > 4) Copy linux-loader to the root directory as "fw.img". > > The final layout of the FAT file-system should look something like this: > > fw.img > linux/boot.cfg > netbsd > wiiu/payload.elf > > (There will be other files present, those are to support the original Wii). > > Power on the Wii U with this SD card installed and the system should boot automatically into NetBSD. On first boot, it will grow the FFS file-system to fill the entire SD card and reboot once, this is expected. Once it boots a second time, you can login as "root" and use the system as any other NetBSD install. > > Take care, > Jared