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Re:Minimal x86 Kernel Zig by asQuirreL on Wednesday February 18, 2026 @03:37AM (#47058716)
It can be (cross-)compiled on whatever architectures the Zig compiler is available for, but the source contains inline x86 assembly, so you're not going to be able to build this for ARM or RISC-V.
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Re:Minimal x86 Kernel Zig by mghackerlady on Wednesday February 18, 2026 @09:06AM (#47061036)
For how short it is, it would be trivially easy to translate the instructions into whatever flavor of CPU made in the past 25 years or so
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