How to run Linux on a 8-bit processor

A foreign hacker named Dmitry Grinberg has tried to create a 8-bit simple computer micro-control device that runs Linux on it.

He wrote an ARM simulator: 2 hours after starting to see the command line prompt (Init=/bin/bash), 4 hours later saw the Ubuntu login page. The system is still available to some extent after you log in, and you can see the response in a minute after you enter a command.

As a general scenario, Linux does not run on less than 32-bit systems, so hacker Grinberg has to write a 32-bit simulator for 8-bit processors, and he emulates only 6.5KHz of CPU speed, which is the cheapest, slowest, simplest, and lowest-end Linux PC After startup, the computer is still useful, and author Grinberg occasionally uses it to format the SD card.

Hardware configuration of this computer device: 8-bit 24MHz microprocessor, 16MB rom,128kb memory, running Linux system.

Source: http://blog.csdn.net/muge0913