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    [–] pokexpert30@jlai.lu 1 points 49 minutes ago

    Probably the Motorola, otherwise none

    [–] socsa@piefed.social 6 points 10 hours ago

    What is our cutoff for "mainline?"

    [–] tal@lemmy.today 24 points 16 hours 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 14 points 15 hours 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.

    [–] NotSteve_@piefed.ca 53 points 18 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 18 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

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

    [–] markz@suppo.fi 12 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

    Great guy, that Linux Torvaldx

    [–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 5 points 15 hours ago

    He's the best.

    [–] RickyRigatoni@piefed.zip 3 points 13 hours ago

    I love his Linux Tech Tips show.

    [–] Reygle@lemmy.world 49 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

    Safe guess is never stop clicking

    [–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 23 points 19 hours ago (2 children)
    [–] Damage@feddit.it 47 points 19 hours ago

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

    [–] Reygle@lemmy.world 3 points 18 hours ago

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

    Probably would also work with Linux

    [–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 7 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

    Now do RISC.

    [–] Nils@lemmy.ca 2 points 11 hours ago

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

    [–] potatopotato@sh.itjust.works 13 points 19 hours ago (3 children)

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

    [–] fonix232@fedia.io 15 points 18 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.

    [–] WolfLink@sh.itjust.works 10 points 17 hours ago

    Implement an SOC on the FPGA and boot away!

    [–] aion@lemmy.world 4 points 18 hours ago

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

    [–] dragnucs@lemmy.ml 7 points 19 hours ago (1 children)
    [–] grue@lemmy.world 8 points 19 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 3 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

    There's an Intel one in there...

    [–] grue@lemmy.world 4 points 17 hours 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 6 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

    Everything except mediatek

    [–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 2 points 10 hours ago

    Unless you are talking about network hardware

    [–] sepi@piefed.social 5 points 19 hours ago

    what the fuck bro

    [–] bibbasa@piefed.social 2 points 16 hours ago

    gotta go rockchip, no?

    [–] theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world 4 points 19 hours ago (1 children)
    [–] ATS1312@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

    Ohhh, there's a fork for that.

    [–] theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world 1 points 10 hours ago

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

    [–] OpenStars@piefed.social 3 points 19 hours ago

    The purity testing is real...😭