Comment on Framework ships RISC-V board for its 13" laptops along with "boardless" laptop chassis.

TheWilliamist@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• thebigslime@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Yes it supported PPC and MIPS, which are RISC platforms.

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• leftzero@lemmynsfw.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The NT kernel is built on top of a hardware abstraction layer, which should make it easier to port it to different architectures.

  It’s a neat kernel, shame about the Windows on top of it.

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  • octoblade@lemmynsfw.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    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.

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  • Allero@lemmy.today ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Gotta say, that is the most technical picture ever posted from lemmynsfw

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  • TheWilliamist@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    To be fair, most/all kernels are written on a hardware abstraction layer, although lot of that kernel was built off of VMS… 😂

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• frezik@midwest.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Alpha, yes, and modern Windows has been ported to ARM.

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  • deltapi@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    And MIPS too. NT 3.1, 3.5, 4.0 all saw MIPS, Alpha, and x86 releases.

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