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<edek>Is possible run hurd on ESP32?

<edek>or raspberry pi 2040

<AlmuHS>edek: not yet, but there are a aarch64 port in progress

<edek>why? this is very popular cpu, cheap

<AlmuHS>there are few developers

<edek>2 core, why not porting microkernel? this will be possible.

<edek>Fuzix working on esp8266

<edek>on raspberry pi , why hurd cant to do this?

<AlmuHS>yeah, but Hurd is not a toy OS

<AlmuHS>It has many components, and the port requires many effort

<AlmuHS>currently gnumach is mostly ported, but the rest of the system is in WIP

<AlmuHS>Hurd is currently developed by very few developers, so the work is slow

<edek>I talk about only kernel

<edek>meybe making a patronite or kicstarter campaning?

<edek>Simple idea, simple goal. If Hord will work on 2025 developers get money ;)

<AlmuHS>onlykernel is a different architecture than microkernel

<edek>Porting to CPU with all compilers toolchain etc. is not a magic

<AlmuHS>it's not a money project. We need more developers and more contributors in general

<edek>If people pay for Hurd it will be a money project ;)

<edek>If money go to project , many developers go to project ;P

<AlmuHS>Currently there are less than 20 developers in Hurd. In active there are less than 10

<AlmuHS>And Hurd it's a fully GNU system. It's not a specific purpose system

<AlmuHS>Includes distributions in Debian and Guix, which also requires work to support

<AlmuHS>Includes desktop and server support

<AlmuHS>The main lack is drivers and hardware support in general, although it's possible to run it in real hardware, with limitations

<edek>I no need desktop, x11 , sound etc

<edek>I need only ssh, keyboard and screen

<AlmuHS>then create your own OS

<edek>probably You are problem with undestand waht I wrote

<AlmuHS>Hurd support ssh, keyboard and screen without problems

<AlmuHS>and the aarch64 support is in WIP

<AlmuHS>but Hurd won't change the kernel model

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