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    [–] NotSteve_@piefed.ca 104 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    It is NOT portable (uses 386 task switching etc), and it probably never will support anything other than AT-harddisks, as that's all I have :-( - Linux Torvalds (1991)

    I've never heard of this "Linux" thing but it sounds like it doesn't support any of them 😀

    [–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 37 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    I think Linux has implemented support for more things since then. He's just an upstanding guy.

    [–] markz@suppo.fi 28 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    Great guy, that Linux Torvaldx

    [–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)
    [–] Agent641@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

    I like him on The WAN Show

    Enough with this politically-correct bullshit. It's Linuo or Linue.

    [–] RickyRigatoni@piefed.zip 6 points 1 month ago

    I love his Linux Tech Tips show.

    [–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

    All it needed were people willing to port it to other architectures, which usually helps with open source projects.

    [–] Reygle@lemmy.world 72 points 1 month ago (1 children)

    Safe guess is never stop clicking

    [–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 30 points 1 month ago (2 children)
    [–] Damage@feddit.it 71 points 1 month ago

    it's just de-labeled, determined penguins can overcome that

    [–] Reygle@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago
    [–] tal@lemmy.today 42 points 1 month ago (1 children)

    https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/linux-takes-476-days-to-boot-on-an-ancient-intel-4004-cpu-cpu-precedes-the-os-by-20-years

    Linux takes 4.76 days to boot on an ancient Intel 4004 CPU β€” CPU precedes the OS by 20 years

    In essence, to bridge the hardware/software divide, the enthusiast emulated the more capable MIPS R3000 processor, which boasts the required C compiler support.

    As long as they can talk to external storage, which I expect all of them can, all of them can probably emulate each other, so all of them can probably boot Linux.

    [–] davidgro@lemmy.world 25 points 1 month ago

    The power of Turing completeness.

    Technically it would be possible to boot Linux on a deck of Magic: The Gathering cards. During your opponent's turn.

    [–] potatopotato@sh.itjust.works 27 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    Well, at least one is an FPGA not an SOC...

    [–] fonix232@fedia.io 25 points 1 month ago

    Well, nobody said that the images will only be of SoCs. The request was to select all SoCs that can boot mainline Linux.

    In regular captcha you get requests that say "select all traffic lights". Guess what, not all squares will be traffic lights.

    [–] WolfLink@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

    Implement an SOC on the FPGA and boot away!

    [–] potatopotato@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago

    I assumed the Spartan 6 didn't have enough LEs to run a microblaze with MMU, but the pictured one is a 75kLUT part so you could probably fit at least a simple dual core design!

    [–] aion@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

    But you can put a MicroBlaze in there and boot Linux.

    [–] potatopotato@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago

    So it turns out you can, see my other post, I stand corrected

    Replace Linux with NetBSD, and then I'll just put my entire hand on the touchscreen

    Probably would also work with Linux

    [–] socsa@piefed.social 11 points 1 month ago

    What is our cutoff for "mainline?"

    [–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

    Now do RISC.

    [–] ColdWater@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

    Everything except mediatek

    [–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 month ago

    Unless you are talking about network hardware

    [–] theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)
    [–] ATS1312@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

    Ohhh, there's a fork for that.

    rk3399 has been on mainline for a good while, no? I think rk3588 is too at this point, even.

    [–] sepi@piefed.social 6 points 1 month ago

    what the fuck bro

    [–] OpenStars@piefed.social 6 points 1 month ago

    The purity testing is real...😭

    [–] bibbasa@piefed.social 3 points 1 month ago

    gotta go rockchip, no?

    [–] Nils@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 month ago

    I was quite successful with Yocto Project for the SoCs I use.

    [–] pokexpert30@jlai.lu 1 points 1 month ago

    Probably the Motorola, otherwise none