Philipp Oppermann

Switch back to a generic BootInfoFrameAllocator as soon as type X = impl Trait is supported

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See https://github.com/phil-opp/blog_os/issues/570#issuecomment-535635252

CI: QEMU installation does not work on Windows

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We use `choco install qemu` to install QEMU on the Windows CI agent. This succeeds, but `C:\Program Files\qemu` [is an empty directory](https://dev.azure.com/phil-opp/blog_os/_build/results?buildId=2183) afterwards. The strange thing is that this still...

We can probably utilize the upcomining cache task on azure pipelines to speed up our builds.

Colored test output

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See https://github.com/phil-opp/blog_os/issues/591#issuecomment-490126223

- init the mapper and frame allocator - call the `create_example_mapping` function - verify in `#[test_case]` that address is accessible

Diff code blocks have no syntax highlighting, e.g. https://os.phil-opp.com/unit-testing/#including-the-standard-library.

Rounding issue of `size` in `add_partition`

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The `add_partition` method takes the partition `size` in bytes as argument. It then divides this size by the block size, which effectively rounds it down to the the next lower...

LTO builds on recent nightlies fail "to get bitcode from object file"

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We recently got a bug report for the `cargo-xbuild` project that builds with LTO fail on recent nightlies: https://github.com/rust-osdev/cargo-xbuild/issues/69. The error message is "error: failed to get bitcode from object...

Building `alloc` does not work with included compiler_builtins

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The `compiler_builtins` crate is now explicitly injected. When building the `alloc` crate via a `[dependencies.alloc]` key in the `Xargo.toml`, a “multiple matching crates for `compiler_builtins`” error occurs. The reason is...

Error: failed to recursively copy /tmp/xargo.… to ~/.xargo/lib/…

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I get this error whenever xargo tries to rebuild the sysroot (e.g. on a rust update): ``` error: failed to recursively copy /tmp/xargo.qkh3QP6TAK4K/target/cortex-a8/release/deps to /home/philipp/.xargo/lib/rustlib/cortex-a8/lib caused by: No such file...