What is our cutoff for "mainline?"
this post was submitted on 13 Mar 2026
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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.
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.
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 π€
I think Linux has implemented support for more things since then. He's just an upstanding guy.
Great guy, that Linux Torvaldx
He's the best.
Enough with this politically-correct bullshit. It's Linuo or Linue.
I love his Linux Tech Tips show.
Safe guess is never stop clicking
There's one empty square.
it's just de-labeled, determined penguins can overcome that
Oh :)
Replace Linux with NetBSD, and then I'll just put my entire hand on the touchscreen
Probably would also work with Linux
Now do RISC.
Well, at least one is an FPGA not an SOC...
Implement an SOC on the FPGA and boot away!
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.
But you can put a MicroBlaze in there and boot Linux.
I was quite successful with Yocto Project for the SoCs I use.
Everything except mediatek
Unless you are talking about network hardware
The purity testing is real...π
rk3399 from experience
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.
gotta go rockchip, no?
what the fuck bro