Cat@ponder.cat to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agoFramework ships RISC-V board for its 13" laptops along with "boardless" laptop chassis.arstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square33fedilinkarrow-up1288arrow-down12
arrow-up1286arrow-down1external-linkFramework ships RISC-V board for its 13" laptops along with "boardless" laptop chassis.arstechnica.comCat@ponder.cat to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agomessage-square33fedilink
minus-squareleftzero@lemmynsfw.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 day agoThe NT kernel is built on top of a hardware abstraction layer, which should make it easier to port it to different architectures.
minus-squareTheWilliamist@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·8 hours agoTo be fair, most/all kernels are written on a hardware abstraction layer, although lot of that kernel was built off of VMS… 😂
minus-squareoctoblade@lemmynsfw.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·11 hours agoYeah, porting the kernel is the “easy” part for any OS. Its the user space and building up a software ecosystem for the new architecture that is a pain in the ass.
The NT kernel is built on top of a hardware abstraction layer, which should make it easier to port it to different architectures.
To be fair, most/all kernels are written on a hardware abstraction layer, although lot of that kernel was built off of VMS… 😂
Yeah, porting the kernel is the “easy” part for any OS. Its the user space and building up a software ecosystem for the new architecture that is a pain in the ass.