amarioguy

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   by amarioguy 4y ago

   I'll definitely take this into account thanks for bringing it up! Licensing is something I've thought about a bit before starting, right now since m1n1 (the hypervisor I'm iterating on) is MIT licensed for the most part, I&#x
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   by amarioguy 4y ago

   for what it's worth amd64 is not going anywhere outside of Macs for at least the next decade, possibly two. Despite the benefits ARM provides amd64 undeniably has advantages and non-trivial ones at that. personally, I'm of the opi
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   by amarioguy 4y ago

   Generally speaking part of the issue with a custom HAL nowadays is that Microsoft moved the HAL from being a DLL to being a statically linked library within the kernel (likely as a performance optimization and because there's no real n
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   by amarioguy 4y ago

   The Asahi folks are some of the best hackers I've talked to lol (project dev here) so definitely give their IRC a visit! Fun side note I volunteered to help fix up the Apple silicon I2C driver to use interrupts instead of polling, so I
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   by amarioguy 4y ago

   to be fair unofficial ports like this are never really meant for production use, and I'm going to make sure that's clear moving forward lol
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   by amarioguy 4y ago

   Project developer here, Windows actually has a x64 compatibility layer now for ARM64 systems in general, so any ARM64 Windows device should be able to run x64 apps (granted the performance penalty is worse than Rosetta since Rosetta relies
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   by amarioguy 4y ago

   hey, I'm the person embarking on the project, thanks for checking it out! one of the big reasons I started this project is that I've really been wanting to work on a project that deals with bootloader and kernel level code, and do
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   by amarioguy 4y ago

   hey, thanks for bringing this up, I'll change the theme to make it more readable sorry about that, it looked readable on my end, but remedying this asap
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   by amarioguy 4y ago

   hey, OP here, figured i'd clarify some things about this project: 1) yes, I realize this is going to be way harder than it seems, but I'm actually going to do my best to hopefully get a good user experience out of this and I'