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Select all SoCs which can boot mainline linux. (lemmy.world)
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[–] 84 points 2 years ago (20 children)

Is it all of them?

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  • [–] 64 points 2 years ago* (16 children)

    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

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  • [–] 42 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    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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  • [–] 24 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    286 Protected Mode is very different from 386 PM and there is no way Linux will would run on it.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    There is a project looking to do this kind of, known as elks that has images for 80286 chips. I have no idea why you’d want to do that to yourself though.

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  • [–] 20 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

    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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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Part of me wishes I still had my families old 386 or commodore knock-off. Read some of the terrible short stories I wrote, play tanks. I remember when my Mom's friend came over with a stack of 51/4 floppies and installed a program that played the Loonie Toons theme song with their logo and Buggs Bunny captioned saying "That's all folks." It blew my mind, video (sort of) on a computer, how was that even possible. I wondered how they got it to connect to the cable cause no way a computer could do that. Dang I'm getting old lol.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago (3 children)

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

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

    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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