• @stingpie@lemmy.world
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    01 year ago

    Anything that’s turning complete, has enough ram, and has a c compiler can run Linux. Theoretically, you could program a CPLD to run brainfuck and you could still run Linux.

  • nifty
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    01 year ago

    What’s the test here? Prove you’re an embedded systems nerd?

    • @Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de
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      1 year ago

      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

      • @grue@lemmy.world
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        01 year ago

        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.