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ValdikSS • today at 6:02 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

Of course people will, I'm looking forward to!

>There's also limited support for 32-bit RISC-V in distros so anyone looking to run Linux on this will need to build everything themselves.

For this kind of a device, "everything" is a kernel + your application/libraries + maybe busybox/toybox with some applets, all with XIP.

>Easier to just get a cheap ARM SoC that can probably run Android

It's at least twice as expensive for the features S31 provides. See my other messages here.


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Rohansi • today at 7:29 PM

> For this kind of a device, "everything" is a kernel + your application/libraries + maybe busybox/toybox with some applets, all with XIP.

But what does Linux actually give you in a MCU? It's a lot of overhead so it has to really be worth it.

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