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Re:Linux 5.0 shown to boot on ESP32 processor by danachow on Monday July 19, 2021 @06:41PM (#27888115)
Linux doesn’t target the xtensa nor does it have a proper mmu so this is emulating a risc-v. It is still very much in the novelty “hack” realm.
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Re:Linux 5.0 shown to boot on ESP32 processor by fulafel on Tuesday July 20, 2021 @08:11AM (#27892781)
There does seem to be a Xtensa Linux port, but you need a Xtensa chip that has some more features than the ESP32 does. http://wiki.linux-xtensa.org/index.php/Supported_Processors
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Re:Linux 5.0 shown to boot on ESP32 processor by anthk on Monday July 19, 2021 @06:51PM (#27888197)
Ah, then that's different, because I've run Linux under an Armv5 device with 32+16mb of RAM with zram just fine.
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