andrewpiroli / ppcskel Goto Github PK

Sorry, I didn't know how else to contact you but I wanted to thank you for taking the time to write the build script for the powerpc-none-elf toolchain, you are an absolute life-saver! I'm doing some experimentation/research on the Wii and I've been trying to come up with ways to build ppcskel and gumboot for a couple days now

Good day!

First off thank you very much for resurrecting projects on MINI in some way.
I'm interested in running more than just CEIL1NG_CAT on my Wii when using mini.

My Wii is a european board with menu 4.1E, boot1b and boot2v2.
I've self-compiled the latest ppcskel (sizing 85KB), used the provided release (sizing 48KB) as well as self-compiled the source code relevant to the release after some fixes giving another 85KB binary.
Unfortunately when loading any of the 3 binaries, nothing loads. It appears that mini jumps to the system menu and doesn't let anything happen.

I've done a couple of tests and made this chat (without the self-compiled release):
A) provided release of ppcboot.elf (48kb)

• ceil1ng_cat (bootmii-boot2): locked up

• ceil1ng_cat (bootmii-ios254): locked up

• ppcboot.elf (bootmii-boot2): ignored, jumped to menu

• ppcboot.elf (bootmii-ios254): video tries to load (green glitches), but after 2 glitches, jumps back to menu.
  B) homemade build of ppcboot.elf (85kb/78kb stripped)

• ceil1ng_cat (bootmii-boot2): reset to menu.

• ceil1ng_cat (bootmii-ios254): reset to menu.

• ppcboot.elf (bootmii-boot2): no video out.

• ppcboot.elf (bootmii-ios254): speakers reset. video blacked.

When you were testing this, what was your board? Maybe this is an issue on my side?
If you know a fix, just know that I am not updating boot2 under any circumstances.