A CAPTCHA that shows pictures of different systems-on-chip, asking to identify which ones boot mainline Linux

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[–] 107 points 8 months ago (7 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 😀

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  • [–] 35 points 8 months ago (5 children)

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

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  • [–] 28 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    Great guy, that Linux Torvaldx

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  • [–] 73 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    Safe guess is never stop clicking

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  • [–] 42 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 30 points 8 months ago (5 children)

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

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  • [–] 28 points 8 months 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.

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  • [–] 18 points 8 months ago

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

    Probably would also work with Linux

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  • [–] 19 points 8 months ago (2 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?"

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  • [–] 10 points 8 months ago

    What is our cutoff for "mainline?"

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  • [–] 9 points 8 months ago*

    Now do RISC.

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  • [–] 8 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Everything except mediatek

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  • [–] 6 points 8 months ago

    The purity testing is real...😭

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago

    gotta go rockchip, no?

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  • [–] 5 points 8 months ago

    what the fuck bro

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago

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

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago

    Probably the Motorola, otherwise none

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