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32bit version

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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...

jzck

fork() types

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I'm working on a KVM library and I find myself reimplementing most of the types from this crate. I can't use this crate, however, because of your (legitimate) need for...

npmccallum

Implement function for creating a gdt in a const environment.

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As mentioned in another pull request, the form for this function was preferred over the other implementation. #406

uglyoldbob

Should there be a common abstraction? Some way to traverse the two formats of XSAVE data? (This issue was split out from https://github.com/rust-osdev/x86_64/issues/262#issue-911312861, which will be closed once #446 is...

phil-opp

How do I map to a virtualized physical address?

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I'm trying to mimic Linux kernel behavior to shift the physical offset to start from 0xffff888000000000. However I'm trying to do this without the OS knowing this proactively (I have...

stevefan1999-personal

Implement conversion traits for PhysAddr and VirtAddr

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Implements the following conversions: - `TryFrom` for `VirtAddr` and `PhysAddr` - `TryFrom` for `VirtAddr` and `PhysAddr` - `From` for `VirtAddr` and `PhysAddr` - `TryFrom` for `VirtAddr` - `TryFrom` for `VirtAddr`...

mikeleany

[Question] Is there a reason to not support pagemaps level 5 ?

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PML5 is an Intel extension to increase addressable space from 256TB to 128PB (see [wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_5-level_paging)). I admit it is a niche use case 🙂 But I was still wondering if...

linkdd

How can I set 2MiB page frame in my Page Directory Table?

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It only allows me to set 4KiB page frame.

heipiao233

`Descriptor::tss_segment` too restrictive?

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I'm trying to implement multitasking in user mode with the following setup: - Each task has a user-mode and kernel-mode stack - The kernel-mode stack pointer is placed in the...

SamZhang3

Mutable references in page table implementation?

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The current API of `RecursivePageTable`, `OffsetPageTable`, and `MappedPageTable` encourages the creation of `&mut PageTable` references to the active page table hierarchy. This might be problematic because the page tables are...

phil-opp