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Not necessarily. Usually these very small cores end up being more architecture specific binaries than a stage0 consisting of gcc + some other core packages. A g
by delroth 5y ago
Not necessarily. Usually these very small cores end up being more architecture specific binaries than a stage0 consisting of gcc + some other core packages. A good illustration of this is that Guix's work on bootstrap seed reduction has been so far mostly applied to i686/amd64 and not even other architectures they support (at least, not fully).
- pxc 5y agoDoes this still matter if you can work your way up to a cross compiler, though? Do you actually need to go all the way down to ‘native’ hex monitors for a bunch of architectures or whatever?