With RISC‑V emulation we get the virtual hardware components we need to boot Linux like MMU, registers etc. So a GCC WASM backend could definitely help, but I'm not sure it could replace the whole emulation layer.
It doesn't have browser support yet because it's WASI-based, so there are a few more steps compared to Emscripten (two different ways to build for WebAssembly). But networking is supposed to work, did you have trouble with it?
Do you think that once GCC gets a working Wasm backend[1], that it might be possible to build Linux for Wasm directly and skip the RISC-V VM?
[1]: https://www.phoronix.com/news/GCC-Steering-WebAssembly
With RISC‑V emulation we get the virtual hardware components we need to boot Linux like MMU, registers etc. So a GCC WASM backend could definitely help, but I'm not sure it could replace the whole emulation layer.
So we can run this on a browser? a demo on the github page would be great. combine it with an extension to support networking, and you have a winner.
It doesn't have browser support yet because it's WASI-based, so there are a few more steps compared to Emscripten (two different ways to build for WebAssembly). But networking is supposed to work, did you have trouble with it?
I didn't try it. Given jslinux exists, and works, i suspect WASM based linux will be faster and more streamlined.