32 general purpose registers
32 floating point registers (extension)
zero register
+always little-endian
influenced by MIPS
proven to be patent-free
Fedora
+Demo
+
+Aims
+ Explain why: current software is crap
+ Busybox
+ Almost like an embedded system
+
+Scope
+
+Four stage bootstrap process
+ Stage 3 is a "hack job" containing a mix of cross-compiled
+ packages built on the host, layered with "--nodeps"-installed RPMs on top.
+
+ Stage 4 is the clean image built entirely from RPMs, with all
+ dependencies satisfied and all files controlled by RPM.
+
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