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How can a kernel written in Go boot?


It seems most kernels are written in C. But yesterday on Hackernews there was a project called the Biscuit research OS.

It claims to be written in Go although there are some assembly and C code in there. So my question is. How does something like this work where the system can boot but it's written in Go?


Solution

  • If you look around you will find the paper(https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/papers/biscuit.pdf) they used a layer that can support Go runtime over which the Biscuit runs enter image description here

    It contains a lot more information in detail, I suggest you should take a look into it.