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Hardware- and architecture-dependent abstractions.
Modules§
- Abstracts the ACPI standard that provides interfaces for hardware detection, device configuration, and energy management.
- Context and ring switching
- CPU specific funcitions
- Memory Segmentation
- Interrupt handling for x86.
- Ports and memory-mapped IO.
- Virtual memory paging data structures.
- The old/historical PIT “Programmable Interval Timer (PIT)”
- Abstractions for cpu flags and control registers
- Task state segment register
Structs§
- A pointer to a discriptor table, that can be loaded with
lgdt
orlidt
.