He mentioned that Linux booted, and stuff about networking, which strongly implied that the login prompt worked, but of course he didn't actually say what occurred.
Linux does output logs to framebuffer during early boot and so you can boot up just Linux (with no rootfs) and watch it panic(), but it's a incredible stretch to say the computer can "boot linux" - when booting didn't finish.
@Suiseiseki @iska@mstdn.starnix.network I've mentioned networking because I've read that someone got it running. It means that it is at least supported *by the kernel* so in theory you can get it running.
And no, even getting to the login prompt on a device like that doesn't make it useable if you can't have any input (e.g. USB doesn't work).
So my point was that there is no point of installing anything linux including GNU/Linux if most hardware is not supported *by the kernel*.
@Suiseiseki @iska@mstdn.starnix.network And as it is an ARM device even if kernel supports some hardware you've got to have proper Device Tree. It won't appear out of thin air and no one made one available for a device that was designed to run Windows Mobile. So it's not that easy.
