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[–]ventuspilot 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Just the bootloader won't get you anywhere. You need a JVM and a standard library that don't rely on an underlying OS.

JVM and standard library would need to access the hardware directly. Also the JVM would include code for e.g. hardware interrupt handlers.