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This moves most of the logic on a calibrate function taking as a paramater a slice of operations to calibrate L3 hit is measured by flush followed by preftechnt1, cpuid serialization, timed access
Dendrobates Tinctorius Azureus - The blue poison frog
This is a minimal kernel (written in rust) meant to help idissect (reverse engineer) Intel CPUs (hence the blue color of the chosen frog)
Everything remains to be done.
Design decision :
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Will only ever have one user process
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Should limit use of interrupts as much as possible
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Should support as many instructions as possible, make sure to properly enable all floating points and vector extensions
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Get a kernel to boot
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Get serial console
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Deal with cpuid / floating point niceties
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Deal with the user mode switch