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Yep. I imagine adding support for different CPU architectures will be... well good luck with that. Perhaps not every OS needs to be portable like Linux...
by anta40 3y ago
Yep. I imagine adding support for different CPU architectures will be... well good luck with that.
Perhaps not every OS needs to be portable like Linux...
- diffuse_l 3y agoThis reminds me the time when Linus said that linux will be hard to port to other architectures, since it is tightly coupled with the 386 architecture...
- seanw444 3y agoCertainly would've been less easy without large community contributions.
- wang_li 3y agoJust shows that he didn’t have much knowledge of other platforms or didn’t have much vision about where his project would go. Fact is if you squint enough every modern system looks like a VAX. The same abstractions fit nearly every architecture.
- sumtechguy 3y agoAt the time he said that he was not wrong. There were huge chunks of .s files that did interesting asm things.
- squarefoot 3y ago> Yep. I imagine adding support for different CPU architectures will be... well good luck with that. Extremely hard indeed, probably more like a 95% rewrite. Might however make sense as a killer application for small ARM or Risc-V boards where Linux would be either overkill or too demanding.
- mysterydip 3y agoWould it be possible to make a "naive port" by replacing cisc instructions with essentially risc microcode (almost like how processors work now)?