Feature #185
Feature #183: Collection of ideas for GSoC and similar
x86_64 support on real hardware
| Status: | New | Start date: | 12/08/2018 | |
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| Priority: | Normal | Due date: | ||
| Assignee: | - | % Done: | 0% | |
| Category: | - | |||
| Target version: | - |
Description
- port a coreboot supported mainboard from x86 to x86_64 (ROMSTAGE / RAMSTAGE only)
- Get familiar with protected mode and long mode
- Learn about paging
- Fix existing code to support x86_64 (struct packing, linker alignment, ...)
- Might need to write assembler code
- Write Documentation