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    [–] tal@lemmy.today 2 points 13 minutes ago

    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.

    [–] bibbasa@piefed.social 1 points 20 minutes ago

    gotta go rockchip, no?

    [–] NotSteve_@piefed.ca 34 points 2 hours ago (1 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 8 points 2 hours ago

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

    [–] Reygle@lemmy.world 41 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

    Safe guess is never stop clicking

    [–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 16 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

    There's one empty square.

    [–] Damage@feddit.it 34 points 3 hours ago

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

    [–] Reygle@lemmy.world 4 points 2 hours ago

    Oh :)

    [–] potatopotato@sh.itjust.works 17 points 3 hours ago (3 children)

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

    [–] WolfLink@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 hour ago

    Implement an SOC on the FPGA and boot away!

    [–] fonix232@fedia.io 9 points 2 hours 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.

    [–] aion@lemmy.world 4 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

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

    [–] dragnucs@lemmy.ml 7 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

    Isn't it all of them?

    [–] grue@lemmy.world 7 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

    Isn't it none of them, because they all want special-snowflake configurations that are supported by the vendor and not upstreamed to "mainline?"

    [–] Tja@programming.dev 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

    There's an Intel one in there...

    [–] grue@lemmy.world 4 points 1 hour ago

    Yeah, but it's for a PXA255 XScale (ARM) processor, not x86. I'm trying to figure out if it requires any binary blobs or other non-mainline tweaks for Linux to work on it, but haven't found a definitive answer yet.

    [–] ColdWater@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 hours ago

    Everything except mediatek

    [–] sepi@piefed.social 5 points 3 hours ago

    what the fuck bro

    [–] OpenStars@piefed.social 4 points 3 hours ago

    The purity testing is real...😭

    [–] theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world 5 points 3 hours ago

    rk3399 from experience