[sgtcodfish]

I currently have a messy side project[1] where I'm writing bare-metal RISC-V machine code (i.e. writing in hex after assembling instructions by hand) targeting the SiFive HiFive1. QEMU is handy for testing since it supports that board pretty well - it lets me skip the "code upload" step and just run a binary with gdb right away.

I did a similar thing with the Raspberry Pi a few years ago, but the QEMU support wasn't great back then which made debugging incredibly hard. I think the support has improved a lot since then, so I should probably give it another go.

[1] https://github.com/SgtCoDFish/bedrock-bootstrap - I'm writing the steps as a kind of tutorial to myself to aid learning, but fair warning that it's all a bit of a mess right now!