Nintendo Wii (Revolution) and T2/Linux

Wii

The Nintendo Wii is the successor of the Nintendo Game Cube, and actually quite simillar in architecture with updated hardware specs:

  • 729 MHz IBM PowerPC core, code name: "Broadway"
  • 243 MHz ATi GPU, code name: "Hollywood"
  • 24 MB T-SRAM, main memory
  • 64 MB GDDR3, secondary memory
  • 3 MB texture memory, GPU on-chip
  • 512MB internal flash memory

Additional expansion options include:

  • SD memory card slot
  • DVD drive
  • 2 USB 2.0 ports
  • built-in 802.11b/g Wi-Fi W-Lan
  • and some proprietrary Nintendo (Game Cube inherited) connectors, such as GameCube controller and memory cards, ...

Video output is limited to 480p, 576i via composite, S-Video, RGB SCART. An special VGA adapter cable appears to exist, too.

Notes

# sync w/ image

/proc/cpuinfo

processor : 0
cpu : 740/750
clock : 729.000000MHz
revision : 113.3 (pvr 0008 7103)
bogomips : 121.34
timebase : 60750000
platform : wii
vendor : IBM
machine : Nintendo Wii

lspci

N.A.