Philipp Oppermann

Paging Implementation: Add support for huge pages in translate function

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This seems to be much simpler than I thought: https://github.com/phil-opp/blog_os/issues/570#issuecomment-680972559

Explain shadowing `if let Some(key) = key` destructuring in "Hardware Interrupts"

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We should add a short explanation of how shadowing works in this situation to help Rust beginners. Reported in https://github.com/phil-opp/blog_os/issues/480#issuecomment-475895193. The pattern is used in https://os.phil-opp.com/hardware-interrupts/#interpreting-the-scancodes.

We're using the comments system [giscus](https://giscus.app/de) for the blog, which now also supports different languages via a `data-lang="en"` attribute in the `script` tag. To use this feature, we should add...

_Originally posted by @KevDev13 in https://github.com/phil-opp/blog_os/discussions/999#discussioncomment-1916024 :_ FYI, when writing this portion of the code: ``` // in src/vga_buffer.rs pub static WRITER: Writer = Writer { column_position: 0, color_code: ColorCode::new(Color::Yellow,...

rust-lld is only available on tier 1 platforms

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See https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/52362#issuecomment-409844742 Reported in https://github.com/phil-opp/blog_os/issues/403#issuecomment-587255050

Paging Implemenation: Don't map page at address zero

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The Rust standard library does not allow writes to address 0, so this can lead to problems. In the post, we don't write to address 0 directly, so this isn't...

See https://github.com/phil-opp/blog_os/issues/720#issuecomment-611228757

New post on the "Writing an OS in Rust" blog

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See https://github.com/phil-opp/blog_os/issues/449#issuecomment-555811809 Requires an update of the _Double Faults_ post.

Reported in https://github.com/phil-opp/blog_os/issues/449#issuecomment-555811809: > You have a rather subtle bug in the TSS stack. While the size (4K) is reasonable, it doesn't have any explicit alignment, whereas the x86_64 ABI...