Talk:xv6

Arthur Flores - Comments

- What does the article (or section) do well?

It's nice and concise. It's straight to the point and it's a unique topic. (Do you think you could reread my Wikipedia article? The doc I posted was on accident and was a test doc that wasn't my actual article. I was just using it as reference of what not to write. Sorry for the trouble.)

- What changes would you suggest overall?

The first sentence already had me lost in the wording. For science communication, the terminology should be more understandable. It may be hard for the topic, but utilizing simpler words could help.

- What is the most important thing that the author could do to improve his/her contribution?

I'd say just maybe expanding on some ideas introduced in the article may help.Aflores0741 (talk) 14:44, 27 October 2025 (UTC)

Where are links to x86-32 and x86-64?

I only saw RISC-V supported on https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.1810/2025/xv6.html

that page has

git clone https://github.com/mit-pdos/xv6-riscv.git

git clone https://github.com/mit-pdos/xv6-riscv-book.git

but I do not see ways to build this for other architectures.

Should "Latest release" and other architecture support information in the article be removed as this may only support RISC-V?

https://github.com/riscv/riscv-gnu-toolchain

is the only toolchain shown, so I do not know if other toolchains work or if only the gnu one can compile it, even llvm.

Other Cody (talk) 17:44, 7 February 2026 (UTC)

I found links in the external links area, but do not know if these are just a fork of the operating system or an officially supported architecture for this operating system.

Other operating systems were also forked, but have a separate Wikipedia page for those operating systems, so I do not know if those should be in the information about this operating system or not.

Other Cody (talk) 18:01, 7 February 2026 (UTC)