Hi everybody! Just a quick update on my RISCV emulator that runs the Linux 6.0 kernel. I've optimized it like crazy and now it has around a 45-second boot time on my computer, I also got duktapetest running so you can run JavaScript code in Scratch. I'm also using the widescreen mod in Turbowarp, but if I even find a way to put this on the Scratch website i'll convert it back to being 4:3. The current problem with running it in scratch is still the project file size limit and a few other small things. If you want to give the project a try yourself you can check it out on my Github: My username is Its-Jakey and the project name is Linux-On-Scratch

I'm suprised how noone has noticed this, and this is a *really* optimized emulator, good job!

can you upload the .sb3 file then to github or smh?

Extremely cool

this is sick!

Undoubtedly, your best achievement is making the thing before announcing it. Good job, and thank you!

MagicCrayon9342 wrote:

Undoubtedly, your best achievement is making the thing before announcing it. Good job, and thank you!

Even though said thing isn't public yet, so we'd have no way to check if OP properly made it.

Can it run bash…. and neofetch?

DifferentDance8 wrote:

MagicCrayon9342 wrote:

Undoubtedly, your best achievement is making the thing before announcing it. Good job, and thank you!

Even though said thing isn't public yet, so we'd have no way to check if OP properly made it.

bilman66 wrote:

If you want to give the project a try yourself you can check it out on my Github: My username is Its-Jakey and the project name is Linux-On-Scratch

Which means it's here: https://github.com/Its-Jakey/Linux-On-Scratch

NFlex23 wrote:

DifferentDance8 wrote:

MagicCrayon9342 wrote:

Undoubtedly, your best achievement is making the thing before announcing it. Good job, and thank you!

Even though said thing isn't public yet, so we'd have no way to check if OP properly made it.

bilman66 wrote:

If you want to give the project a try yourself you can check it out on my Github: My username is Its-Jakey and the project name is Linux-On-Scratch

Which means it's here: https://github.com/Its-Jakey/Linux-On-Scratch

I loaded it into turbowarp and tried to start it. But even after a good 20 minutes it still hadn't finished starting up.

DifferentDance8 wrote:

MagicCrayon9342 wrote:

Undoubtedly, your best achievement is making the thing before announcing it. Good job, and thank you!

Even though said thing isn't public yet, so we'd have no way to check if OP properly made it.

Did you read OP at all?

This is off the deck!

I mean, it's not possible to run Linux on a Scratch project, but you did it, Bravo!

But the text engine in the emulator is slow anyways

WojtekGame wrote:

This is off the deck!

I mean, it's not possible to run Linux on a Scratch project, but you did it, Bravo!

But the text engine in the emulator is slow anyways

Try turbo mode. It should make the text render faster.

The one computer I tried it on so far was too slow (stopped at around 7*10^8 instructions) to get beyond the login prompt. I'll try it again when I get around to it.

I'd be quite impressed to see GNU as (or even gcc) running, though it'd probably need a lot of libraries making the initramfs bigger. Or any assembler.

Anyway I'm glad someone beat me to it (and in only a year) since I didn't have the time or dedication to try it properly so it wouldn't have happened at all. (I think the main thing I was missing was atomic instructions, which isn't that big of a deal lol. And maybe figuring out how physical memory is really supposed to map to physical addresses, or something.)

How long did the whole project take?

Well, mine did a kernel panic at the login screen, great project though!

Can someone post a couple of screenshots of different things running? It doesn't load in a reasonable time on my computer.

Uhh I got here, but I can't enter a username/password for buildroot login

ajskateboarder wrote:

Uhh I got here, but I can't enter a username/password for buildroot login

Space to input, followed by root. (Dunno if you need to press left arrow for newline as well; in my case it started doing stuff immediately but hung before getting to the shell.)

Jonathan50 wrote:

ajskateboarder wrote:

Uhh I got here, but I can't enter a username/password for buildroot login

Space to input, followed by root. (Dunno if you need to press left arrow for newline as well; in my case it started doing stuff immediately but hung before getting to the shell.)

What are your computer's specs?

Jonathan50 wrote:

The one computer I tried it on so far was too slow (stopped at around 7*10^8 instructions) to get beyond the login prompt. I'll try it again when I get around to it.

I'd be quite impressed to see GNU as (or even gcc) running, though it'd probably need a lot of libraries making the initramfs bigger. Or any assembler.

Anyway I'm glad someone beat me to it (and in only a year) since I didn't have the time or dedication to try it properly so it wouldn't have happened at all. (I think the main thing I was missing was atomic instructions, which isn't that big of a deal lol. And maybe figuring out how physical memory is really supposed to map to physical addresses, or something.)

How long did the whole project take?

I wasn't working on it daily, but It took around a month