• stingpie@lemmy.world
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      5 months ago

      Emulated processors can do the same things as physical processors, including booting from disk.

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        5 months ago

        Boot = Bootstrap

        If you’ve loaded up a virtual CPU first that’s not a boot of mainline Linux on the CPU.

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        5 months ago

        Yes, but it doesn’t count, because the SoC from the picture didn’t boot Linux, an emulated machine did.

        That’s why the records on doing this silly stuff on progressively smaller microcontroller use the word “run”. It has more transitivity.

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          I’m not sure I understand your argument. Are you saying that the emulated processor executes instructions while the SoC doesn’t? Every instruction that goes to the x86 is broken down into several SoC instructions, which the SoC executes in order to emulate what an x86 would do. Saying that the emulated x86 is booting/running Linux, but the SoC is not is like saying that computers can’t run java code, they can only run jvm.