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Do you think that once GCC gets a working Wasm backend[1], that it might be possible to build Linux for Wasm directly and skip the RISC-V VM?

[1]: https://www.phoronix.com/news/GCC-Steering-WebAssembly

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With RISC‑V emulation we get the virtual hardware components we need to boot Linux like MMU, registers etc. So a GCC WASM backend could definitely help, but I'm not sure it could replace the whole emulation layer.

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