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

submitted 9 months ago by deafboy@lemmy.world to c/programmerhumor@lemmy.ml

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[–] theamigan@lemmy.dynatron.me 24 points 9 months ago (1 children)

286 Protected Mode is very different from 386 PM and there is no way Linux will would run on it.

[–] socphoenix@midwest.social 10 points 9 months ago (1 children)

There is a project looking to do this kind of, known as elks that has images for 80286 chips. I have no idea why you’d want to do that to yourself though.

[–] theamigan@lemmy.dynatron.me 6 points 9 months ago

Interesting. Reminds me of PC/IX, and it probably similarly doesn't even enter pm, judging from it running also on an 8086.