I'll admit I'm a little confused by the "pure-Go userland" aspect.
At first I thought this meant a userland consisting of common utilities (ls, grep, the usual GNU suspects) written in Go, but that doesn't seem to be the case.
Instead, it seems to be, if you can compile your Go program for AMD64, and it can build without glibc (or any c runtime), then it can be hosted by Gokrazy? Is that right?
They mean the whole userland. Like, init onwards. It's a great idea because the Linux userland is kind of a hacky mess, and takes active maintenance - not something you really want on an embedded device. This makes it more like a microcontroller, where basically the only process you have to worry about is your own.
My only question is does it work with WiFi? I was under the impression that quite a lot of the Linux WiFi stack was implemented in userland (wpa_supplicant).
I've seen more and more folks trying to reduce their use of 'crazy' in recent years and I'm starting to come around to the idea that using 'crazy' as shorthand might not be helpful in a society that already struggles with helping those with mental health issues.
[+] [-] farleykr|6 years ago|reply
[+] [-] dang|6 years ago|reply
[+] [-] 2bitencryption|6 years ago|reply
At first I thought this meant a userland consisting of common utilities (ls, grep, the usual GNU suspects) written in Go, but that doesn't seem to be the case.
Instead, it seems to be, if you can compile your Go program for AMD64, and it can build without glibc (or any c runtime), then it can be hosted by Gokrazy? Is that right?
[+] [-] IshKebab|6 years ago|reply
My only question is does it work with WiFi? I was under the impression that quite a lot of the Linux WiFi stack was implemented in userland (wpa_supplicant).
[+] [-] Pfhreak|6 years ago|reply
I've seen more and more folks trying to reduce their use of 'crazy' in recent years and I'm starting to come around to the idea that using 'crazy' as shorthand might not be helpful in a society that already struggles with helping those with mental health issues.
[+] [-] tomcam|6 years ago|reply
[+] [-] gingabriska|6 years ago|reply