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  • While you are correct with insanity of running bare-metal, this argument is manipulative. Indeed, no sane person will ditch existing kernel(e.g. Linux of FreeBSD) and write one themselve, running program in common OS is not bare-metal.

    Another manipulation is VM vs per-dervice dedicated hardware.

    Redundancy is also easier, should I decide it is worth the hardware investment.

    Same thing valid for regular userland.






  • I suggest you to look at SBCs:

    1. RockPro64
    2. Quartz64
    3. And many others

    I don’t find running them problematic, but this is maybe because I have crossdev on gentoo.

    Here’s how to install distro on sdcard for SBC:

    1. Partition sdcard
    2. Make devicetree file
    • For most SBCs dts files are already made
    1. Configure and install bootloader(e.g. u-boot)
    2. Unpack base system to sdcard
    3. Configure, compile kernel and then copy to boot partition(can be shared with system, bootloader must support FS)