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0 pointsmwcampbell11y ago0 comments

What hardware is your team currently targeting with kOS? An x86 virtual machine under something like VirtualBox seems to be a popular choice among developers of alternative operating systems, since it's a way of avoiding the diversity of PC hardware and the need for lots of drivers. So are you doing that? Or sticking to things that are pretty well standardized but outdated, like IDE and VGA as opposed to SATA and modern GPUs? Or are you targeting a particular subset of PC hardware?

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geocar11y ago

Arthur, Oleg and Pierre use Asus UX31A; I have a MBA. I did the first kernel in qemu, but Pierre got an EFI boot going with Intel modesetting pretty quickly.

I'm more interested in smaller devices though (ARM, etc).

mwcampbellOP11y ago

So is a laptop like the UX31A or the MBA actually usable as a laptop with kOS yet? I imagine power management is going to be complicated to implement, if you haven't gotten to that yet.

> I'm more interested in smaller devices though (ARM, etc).

Yes. I imagine a smartphone with a very low-power processor and a couple orders of magnitude less RAM than the mainstream models could have very impressive battery life.

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