Editing Wii-Linux (section)

==== Techflash's kernel ====
Techflash originally attempted to rebase TheOtherOne's 4.4 kernel onto 4.5, however, this proved challenging, due to the CIP patches that were applied.  Ultimately, he ended up going for the original set of 4.4 patches that TheOtherOne applied to her CIP tree, directly applied those onto a clean copy of Linux 4.4, and rebased that to 4.5.  Of note is that this code still shares it's origin with neagix's "experimental-v4.x", and as such, shares it's problems.  Of particular importance is the lack of neagix and FarterSoft's RGB patches, exposing an RGB565 framebuffer, as opposed to the Wii's native YUV framebuffer, to usespace.  This is a feature that's natively supported using the DRM graphics subsystem in modern Linux versions, however, this was still the best way to do this translation back during the time when the patches were written.  Techflash later added these changes from the "stable-v3.x" branch in, allowing Xorg and other graphical apps to run correctly.  He has also re-added the legacy USB Gecko driver, and overhauled the EXI stack, allowing users to use the USB Gecko as a TTY once again.  The latest stable version of Techflash's kernel is '''4.19.325 LTS''', however, older versions (4.14.336 LTS, 4.14.275 LTS (for OpenWRT), 4.9.337 LTS, 4.6.0, and 4.5.0) are still present.  There are also experimental ports to 5.4.293 LTS, 5.10.237 LTS, 5.15.184 LTS, and 6.1.0, which work to varying degrees.