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Object-oriented design patterns in the kernel, part 2

Object-oriented design patterns in the kernel, part 2

Posted Jun 8, 2011 20:00 UTC (Wed) by arnd (subscriber, #8866)
In reply to: Object-oriented design patterns in the kernel, part 2 by cesarb
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There was recently an attempt to port the kernel to a 48 bit pointer architecture that uses 16 bit segment registers with 32 bit offsets. The replies from kernel developers towards this were between "no way" and "as long as you fix all the bugs and make the code look prettier in the process."


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Object-oriented design patterns in the kernel, part 2

Posted Jun 12, 2011 17:33 UTC (Sun) by josh (subscriber, #17465) [Link]

Which architecture has that fascinating addressing scheme?

Object-oriented design patterns in the kernel, part 2

Posted Jun 16, 2011 16:01 UTC (Thu) by siride (guest, #62756) [Link]

i386 of course

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