Building the worst Linux PC ever: 6 hours to boot Ubuntu

Post by lusr » Thu, Mar 29, 2012, 5:02 AM UTC

reginaldo wrote: post #49

woodall wrote: post #48

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I love stuff like this. If only there was an easy way to make 'GUI' programs Flash/Java might have competition.

Working on it... The LatticeMico32 toolchain (gcc, gdb, ar, ld) is very bad, seriously... I'm thinking of doing a MIPS or ARM emulator, just because the toolchains are so much better to work with. Anyways, I do have a framebuffer demo that runs at a very decent frame rate on my machine (at this moment it is Chrome only and I unfortunately don't have the binaries for the demo on github). But this is not on Linux, it's…

Post by joshu » Thu, Mar 29, 2012, 5:59 AM UTC

dmitrygr wrote: post #35

gravitronic wrote: post #6

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Theoretically you could boot X without a hardware framebuffer emulator. X supports rendering to normal RAM as well (for example, for VNC connections).

Actually, if you go read my source code, you'll see that the emulator DOES in fact emulate a framebuffer. In fact I even have code in place to output the image. I just didn't connect a graphical LCD to this particular built. It is, however, supported.

Post by bobroberts » Thu, Mar 29, 2012, 6:12 AM UTC

JanezStupar wrote: post #31

This article got me laughing into tears. Only to make it even funnier by the glazed look in my girlfriends eyes when I was trying to explain whats so funny about guy bootstrapping a 32bit OS on a 8bit micro controller. I mean the idea of emulating 32bit OS on a 8bit machine is not something too ridiculous on its own. But the setup he used. Oh my god. Must stop trying to comprehend this madness. Kudos to Dmitry.

Post by jacquesm » Thu, Mar 29, 2012, 8:59 AM UTC

JanezStupar wrote: post #31

This article got me laughing into tears. Only to make it even funnier by the glazed look in my girlfriends eyes when I was trying to explain whats so funny about guy bootstrapping a 32bit OS on a 8bit micro controller. I mean the idea of emulating 32bit OS on a 8bit machine is not something too ridiculous on its own. But the setup he used. Oh my god. Must stop trying to comprehend this madness. Kudos to Dmitry.

Post by bodyloss » Thu, Mar 29, 2012, 10:14 AM UTC

pavel_lishin wrote: post #20

iliis wrote: post #17

Impressive. And now I'm wondering if a Minecraft inside Minecraft would actually be realizable. As 8bit CPUs have already been made (altough with unknown architecture), it is a bit less crazy to imagine running linux with a java stack on it. It will be hellish slow and you probably need some sort of "hardware" graphic acceleration. And a lot more memory than the current versions. But hey, running Minecraft in Minecra…

How about Conway's Life in Conway's Life? (Yo, dawg: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Q... )