rust-osdev / rust-osdev/x86_64
32bit version
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Description
Hi guys, first of all thanks for the great work,
I'm maintaining a 32bit (aka i386, aka IA-32, aka protected mode) fork of this library my own purposes. It just hit me that everything I've rewritten could be included inside of this crate with conditional compilation ala #[cfg(target_arch="x86-64"]. The main differences obviously concern address sizes, but also page table topology isn't the same in 32bit, and some quirks here and there, nothing huge really.
Your crate is named x86-64 so it's not obvious that these changes would be welcome... should i start writing a draft and make a pull request or should i maintain my own crate on the side?
ps: my version was forked at v0.2.0-alpha-009 so there's not much to catch up with
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Start by comparing the current x86_64 crate with the reporter's fork at v0.2.0-alpha-009, focusing on address sizes, page-table topology, and 32-bit-specific quirks. Establish whether conditional compilation for 32-bit targets is supported, then define the required scope and validation for a complete 32-bit implementation.
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- Tech stack
- rust
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- operating-systems
- Issue type
- Feature
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