Post #3782750

I saw that the Sega Dreamcast got patches in the latest 7.2 Linux kernel and was curious about the state of running Linux on the ancient nugget Back in the day you could buy a 10/100 NIC upgrade for it (the "Broadband Adapter" or BBA) Internally the BBA is a bog standard Realtek RTL 8139c chip But then there's these two other custom(?) chips on the board. One of which is branded "SEGA" Seemingly nobody has reverse engineered these? Instead, folks have been harvesting BBA's from Dreamcast *arcade* (Naomi) machines and using an adapter board to run that on their Dreamcasts NetBSD at least seems to have a driver for the adapter and describes the Sega chip as a "G2 to PCI bridge chip" I'm surprised nobody has undertaken the effort to re-implement the glue logic for the thing in a low-end CPLD or something and attached it to an RTL8139c. God knows there's only about a trillion of those chips floating around anymore The Dreamcast BBA's go on eBay for a bit over $200 each. Surely building something below *that* price point shouldn't be impossible in 2026? (as long as it doesn't need RAM or an SSD)