If you get it right you're a robot!
post
Is it all of them?
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
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.
286 Protected Mode is very different from 386 PM and there is no way Linux will would run on it.
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.
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.
If posted in the right circles, this might motivate someone to get something on a Spartan 6 that runs Linux.
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
You can run a "soft" (semi-hard?) Processor on a Spartan, you could run Linux on that at least.
it's an fpga with no arm
You can make arm in fpga. Or more realistically RISC-V.
I just go by the colour - I don't like the slightly maroon Qualcomm one.
It's like picking politicians but different - with then I go by their haircuts...
With enough grit and time, yes :D
Edit: ok not mainline, but Linux in some form or another anyway.
What’s the test here? Prove you’re an embedded systems nerd?
This is gold
OH MAN. I worked on an Android tablet that used a rockchip CPU, not the one listed here but an older one (I think RK3026). What a PIECE OF SHIT. I don't wish that tablet on my worst enemy. Battery life was like sub 2 hours with a 3200 mAh battery. Sometimes it would start running hot, and you could watch the batter percentage go down one percent every 10-20 seconds. The only way to break it out was to reboot it or let it die.
We later upgraded our CPU to the 3288, one gen older than this one, and it was significantly improved, but still very entry level.
Never use an SoC that's not at least 5 years old ;)
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.
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.
Damn that's gonna be slow.
But I guess speed was not a criterion.
"boot" is the next important part. Have you tried reading it in full?
I remember this captcha. I gave up after about the fourth round. The prize just wasn't worth it, and I wasn't on a machine where I could try scripting out a solution.
ARM really shot itself in the foot by making it so every SOC needs to have a custom OS image tailored to it. x86 meanwhile lets you pick a universal binary that'll sort itself out at runtime
top 50 comments