Uros Popovic looks to run mainline Linux on $5 dollar hardware (well, if it’s the board above, $11.70). The Lichee Nano is an SD card sized Linux development board powered by an Allwinner F1C100s ARM9 processor.
We’ll look at a fairly minimal set up that should run the latest mainline Linux. I’ve previously written about running Linux on hardware without an MMU, but that exercise was done entirely virtually and more or less only verified theoretical ideas. This time we will take very cheap physical components and put them together into a reasonably powerful Linux set up (which doesn’t exclude MMU this time!). We’ll use the latest mainline kernel and deploy it on a real device.
