Jokes aside, this looks great as an educational project, because you can run real Linux software on this kernel, from Vim to Doom.
Things will become really interesting once this gets ported to ARM. There is a serious amount of MCUs with 4 MB of RAM where Tilck should run fine, but even Yocto or OpenWRT won't fit.
I mean, in all seriousness, NetBSD and FreeBSD both have binary compatibility layers to run Linux programs
But maybe it's just there because it's fun...and that's absolutely ok.
Thanks Sherlock.
It says right there on the homepage in the link:
« What is Tilck?
Tilck is an educational monolithic x86 kernel »
That answers both your points.
As if you know what fun is ;)
:-(
Be happy and have a great day.
You:
[1] apparently didn't read the link and asked foolish questions about it.
[2] I answered your questions.
[3] You attacked me and questioned its usefulness.
[4] I answered that too.
[5] You attacked me again and mocked me.
[6] And now, it's not really clear to me, but you are blaming me for being unhappy that you attacked me?
I don't know if it is possible to block people on HN, but for you, I will try to find out, because you personally have both wasted my time and made my weekend noticeably less pleasant, and now you are mocking me.
Much RAM is not needed if most of your code resides on the flash and runs directly from there.
[1]: https://github.com/espressif/esp-idf/tree/master/examples/pr...
> Jokes aside
If you just were. That project uses indeed a BSD license. Isn't that making it unnecessarily hard on oneself as one then cannot 'borrow' Linux kernel code, including drivers?
Porting to ARM is not a priority, and ARM could fund it if they cared.