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Slight difference between EFI and ESP. Works on my EFI laptop, my ESP32 board wasn’t having it.
by AstroJetson 2y ago
Slight difference between EFI and ESP. Works on my EFI laptop, my ESP32 board wasn’t having it.
- gtirloni 2y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EFI_system_partition https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EFI_system_partition
- lproven 2y agoYup, that. In hindsight "fitting into" a microcontroller does also work, sort of...
- yonatan8070 2y agoIn this context ESP = EFI System Partition
- lproven 2y ago[OP here] That is correct -- thanks. I did not think it was ambiguous in context. Silly me.
- galangalalgol 2y agoGiven the specs on an esp32, or stm32 for that matter, a usable desktop should really be possible. The amiga1k didn't have anything but page protection from its mmu, and many microcontrollers can do that. The web experience would be... different, but a lot should work fine.
- rcxdude 2y agoYeah, you could certainly make an older OS work quite nicely on such hardware. You can even cram Linux into such devices, but it's not going to give a smooth interface
- galangalalgol 2y agoI didn't think you could get modern kernels to work eithout an mmu that supports virtual memory? In any case linux seems a bit heavy. Something based off redox might work, it has a small code base at least, but it would be a lot of work.
- pantalaimon 2y agoYou’re joking but you can run Linux on the ESP32-S3 https://github.com/ESP32DE/Boot-Linux-ESP32S3-Playground https://github.com/ESP32DE/Boot-Linux-ESP32S3-Playground
- taneq 2y agoOhhhhh! Yeah the "ESP can be up to 4GB" had me totally lost. Like, no, the ones we use have 4MB of flash.