8s is super-comfortable! Btw I wonder how did cortex start, before it ever booted they need some filesystem to hold files. Is cortex filesystem mountable by modern linux? How did they made it in early times?
The Cortex was a traditional home computer with Basic in its day. Running Unix on it was my project some 6-7 years ago. It was a long journey: porting a C compiler and tool chain, building simple kernels with a linked in user program (downloaded to the H/W via something similar to S-records), etc. When the time for disk access came, I used a tool to create & manage disk images.
For the original Unix, the file system was almost the first thing that was built, after the assembler (that is how a.out got its name: assembler output). An empty disk image was written by a custom format program. Files were then loaded from paper tape. Some 1969/1970 Unix code can be found here:
https://www.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl
In its first incarnations it was all assembler, but many of the core ideas were already there. Some more background is here:
https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/hist.html
You can follow my journey here, in 315 commits:
https://www.jslite.net/cgi-bin/9995/timeline?n=400&y=all&v=0
I use a program ("ufs") which creates a disk image from scratch and then adds files to it. The source code is here:
https://www.jslite.net/cgi-bin/9995/dir?ci=84b2a75947eb76db&name=fsutil
Even on the mini Cortex hardware, the CF Card uses FAT formatting and has an image file on it. I make sure the image is contiguous and the boot loader lets the Unix disk driver know in which sector the image starts. This way I can simply copy disk images to the CF card without needing to use special tools.
Actually, the card also has disk images for other OS's as well - MDEX and NOS, which are somewhat similar to CP/M and MS-DOS 3 respectively.
root@buildroot:~# cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor : 0
hart : 1
isa : rv32im
mmu : sv32
processor : 1
hart : 0
isa : rv32im
mmu : sv32
Info: Device utilisation:
Info: TRELLIS_SLICE: 15356/41820 36%
Info: TRELLIS_IO: 83/ 365 22%
Info: DCCA: 3/ 56 5%
Info: DP16KD: 48/ 208 23%
Info: MULT18X18D: 8/ 156 5%
Info: ALU54B: 0/ 78 0%
Info: EHXPLLL: 1/ 4 25%
Info: EXTREFB: 0/ 2 0%
Info: DCUA: 0/ 2 0%
Info: PCSCLKDIV: 0/ 2 0%
Info: IOLOGIC: 39/ 224 17%
Info: SIOLOGIC: 0/ 141 0%
Info: GSR: 0/ 1 0%
Info: JTAGG: 0/ 1 0%
Info: OSCG: 0/ 1 0%
Info: SEDGA: 0/ 1 0%
Info: DTR: 0/ 1 0%
Info: USRMCLK: 1/ 1 100%
Info: CLKDIVF: 0/ 4 0%
Info: ECLKSYNCB: 0/ 10 0%
Info: DLLDELD: 0/ 8 0%
Info: DDRDLL: 0/ 4 0%
Info: DQSBUFM: 0/ 14 0%
Info: TRELLIS_ECLKBUF: 0/ 8 0%
Info: ECLKBRIDGECS: 0/ 2 0%