deafboy@lemmy.world to Programmer Humor@lemmy.mlEnglish · 8 months agoSelect all SoCs which can boot mainline linux.lemmy.worldimagemessage-square45fedilinkarrow-up1838arrow-down114
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minus-squarestingpie@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·8 months agoEmulated processors can do the same things as physical processors, including booting from disk.
minus-squareRoss_audio@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·8 months agoBoot = Bootstrap If you’ve loaded up a virtual CPU first that’s not a boot of mainline Linux on the CPU.
minus-squarestingpie@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down1·8 months agoI respectfully disagree. The turning machine is not doing any set-up before the emulated CPU begins execution, and all of the actual BIOS is done by the emulated CPU.
Emulated processors can do the same things as physical processors, including booting from disk.
Boot = Bootstrap
If you’ve loaded up a virtual CPU first that’s not a boot of mainline Linux on the CPU.
I respectfully disagree. The turning machine is not doing any set-up before the emulated CPU begins execution, and all of the actual BIOS is done by the emulated CPU.