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Select all SoCs which can boot mainline linux. (lemmy.world)

submitted 9 months ago by deafboy to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Not on the Harris, Qualcomm and Broadcom ones, those are modems. The Mediatek and TI Omap one I have no idea about. The SCEI one can only run YellowDog due to it being a PowerPC architecture.

[–] thehatfox 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Yellow Dog, there’s a name I haven’t heard in a while. Unfortunately it’s now long dead.

Debian at least still maintains a PPC version.

[–] JustUseMint 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

That was a neat read, had never heard of it before. Yeah, besides like obviously IBM OSs and Debian I didn't know anything else that had power support.

[–] thehatfox 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

There's various exotic platforms that supported PPC, like some the Amiga derived OSs like AmigaOS 4, MorphOS, AROS etc. BeOS also keenly supported PPC.

Even Windows NT had a PPC version for a while.

[–] cashews_best_nut 1 points 9 months ago

And HaikuOS the BeOS successor compiles for PPC. :)