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deafboy@lemmy.world to Programmer Humor@lemmy.mlEnglish · 1 year 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 · 1 year ago
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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

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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.

        • CashewNut 🏴󠁢󠁥󠁧󠁿@lemmy.world
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          It needed a separate co-processor

          Such a great time to be alive. 🥲

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

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          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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            Interesting. Reminds me of PC/IX, and it probably similarly doesn’t even enter pm, judging from it running also on an 8086.

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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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          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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            https://youtu.be/DdpGIOv33L4?si=JtN2I3VH4BhgSIyf

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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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        You can run a “soft” (semi-hard?) Processor on a Spartan, you could run Linux on that at least.

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        I guess the blurry Samsung in the center is an ARM?

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        it’s an fpga with no arm

        You can make arm in fpga. Or more realistically RISC-V.

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      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…

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      With enough grit and time, yes :D

      Edit: ok not mainline, but Linux in some form or another anyway.

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        Here’s a list:

        https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Mainlining

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