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austy69today at 2:03 PM2 repliesview on HN

It is so cool to see some bare metal OSs being built. Do projects like this pave the way for a better standard ISA and less driver code, like the problem described in Casey Muratori's video "the 30 million line code problem"? I'm a bit new to this space, but this seems like a step in that direction.


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revengerwizardtoday at 3:05 PM

The only way to lessen the need of drivers would be to have more standardized and stable hardware interfaces and peripherals.

surajrmaltoday at 2:20 PM

Hardware is getting more specialized these days. It's becoming more difficult than ever to write bare metal code. I don't think most (any?) software wants to manage the details a BSP solves for them.