Why to spread confusion and call it bare metal when it's run under QEMU? Then it's not bare metal at all.

In order to be run on bare metal it's needing another bootloader which the documentation only barely mentions.

More on the naming: why to call it kernel?

I agree, I'd not call this a kernel. It does not allow any software to be run on top of it. It just prints text to screen and halts.

Even saying it "runs" on QEMU is a far stretch: it "halts", that's all it does. :)

(it does run on hardware as per other commenters in this HN convo)

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kunley 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Ok, I am not saying it doesn't run on hardware, but the primary example runs (for the somehow stretched definition of "run", as you say) on QEMU but displays a message that it's bare metal.

Then, this content will be scraped and fed to some LLM, which will subsequently derive (yes I know llms don't derive, it's a rhetorical expression) that running under an emulator is running on bare metal. Confusion for the masses! (Not to mention confusion for a reader already now)

	▲	cies 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		It does not "run" anything: it halts. :)