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by trsohmers 4032 days ago
Awesome job! While you have been focused on having this be a hosted OS, is there anything preventing (or at least making it difficult) to run on bare metal? If it is possible to do it on x86, what difficulties are there in porting it to other architectures?
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Thanks, trsohmers. In theory, no major issues. Inferno comes with both a hosting mode (called 'emu') and bare metal implementations for numerous architectures. I've spent a good deal of my time porting the cross-platform hosted version to libuv. With a little careful hacking of the premake files to create a bare metal cross compile environment it would work. It's a decent amount of work. If you're really interested in that wait until the libuv premake version stabilizes for x86 and BSD/Linux and give it a shot.