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deafboy@lemmy.world to Programmer Humor@lemmy.mlEnglish · 2 years ago

Select all SoCs which can boot mainline linux.

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Select all SoCs which can boot mainline linux.

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deafboy@lemmy.world to Programmer Humor@lemmy.mlEnglish · 2 years ago
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    If you get it right you’re a robot!

    • lockhart@lemmy.ml
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      welcome to the secret robot internet

  • Flexaris@discuss.tchncs.deBanned from community
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    Is it all of them?

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      I don’t think the Spartan 6 can, it’s an fpga with no arm, the zynq can, there’s a lot of other arm chips that I assume can run some type of Linux, but the blurry ones are throwing me off

      Edit, top left is a 286 CPU, and the Intel one has an earlier date, so they MIGHT be able to runwalk it, it’ll be not good

      • grue@lemmy.world
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        Not only could mainline Linux never run on a 286, it also definitely doesn’t count as an “SoC” to begin with. It needed a separate co-processor just to do floating-point math, let alone to manage all the I/O that a SoC does on-die.

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          You guys are the best. I reply in what I think is a bit nerdy way, and I’m outdone.

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        this is extra tricky because they did not specify the exact kernel. mainline could be any of the kernels tagged as stable that you can build from linus’ git tree. i know that in the past you could run a mainline linux on intel 368 chips but today you probably can not because official support was dropped a while ago.

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        If posted in the right circles, this might motivate someone to get something on a Spartan 6 that runs Linux.

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          Damn … https://numato.com/kb/saturn-microblaze-and-linux-how-run-linux-saturn-spartan-6-fpga-module-part-i/ I was hoping to find a comment, maybe, not a complete guide.

          Also, didn’t know that you could run it in a microblaze instance

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            Linux 🤝 DooM

            Running on literally fucking anything

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              Doom runs without MMU or even MPU. Maybe can run even without context switching.

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    What’s the test here? Prove you’re an embedded systems nerd?

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    Anything that’s turning complete, has enough ram, and has a c compiler can run Linux. Theoretically, you could program a CPLD to run brainfuck and you could still run Linux.

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      The mainline part is key.

      • stingpie@lemmy.world
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        Yes. Any turing complete processor can perfectly emulate any other turing complete processor, whether it is x86, arm, or riscv. Mainline Linux can then run on this emulated processor without modification.

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    This is gold

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      It’s mostly silicon.

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