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> “Linux never succeeded.”
> Almost all Supercomputers run Linux.
> Most Web Servers Run Linux
> Is the basis for Android
lol wat
Most corporate servers in general run Linux, let alone webservers. Intel literally used Minix without attribution in their Intel Management Engine, so technically every Intel chipset motherboard with an IME runs Linux. That’s basically every Intel motherboard since 2008.
Minix is a different (older) kernel from Linux: https://www.minix3.org/
Not even the more expensive microcontrollers run Linux.
The kind of thing you would see in such a simple device like a dildo are the cheaper smaller ones with RAM sizes and Flash Memory sizes in the KB range and costs less that $1 in bulk.
Mind you, you can squeeze a Linux kernel into a really small amount of memory, but why for a production device pay more for a larger than needed microcontroller and then use most of its storage for a Linux kernel leaving little space for the actual functional code when you don’t need support for things like filesystems or networking?
Microcontrollers are a whole different world from microprocessors.
The cheapest thing you could still run linux on would probably be an Allwinner F1C100s, you can get those in bulk for about 2 £
Allwinner F1C100s
That’s pretty interesting. I wasn’t aware of those.
That said, Allwinner call in an application processor, so it’s a microprocessor not a microcontroller - 32MB RAM is quite a bit above even higher-end microcontrollers (which generally are more like 8MB Flash and a lot less than that RAM).
Looking at the specs you could do like a mini Linux phone with one (resolution 1280x720 😀), though I 32MB RAM isn’t enough for X-Windows.
True that one is indeed a bit overkill compared to MCUs, but I’ve worked with it extensively and it I indeed able to be used bare metal through xboot/awboot. It’s larger cousins like the v851s and T113-S3 aren’t as easy though.
