Subj : Re: Computer Broken
To   : tenser
From : apam
Date : Wed Sep 17 2025 07:53:54

 > I believe you mean rxv64, which was a Rust rewrite of xv6, but
 > retargeted to x86_64, instead of 32-bit x86.  I keep it working,
 > but that project is basically done.

Yes, that's what I was thinking of.

 > but it's 32-bit specific and it's in C."  So I did rxv64 as an
 > additional resource; that was helpful, but it was always meant as
 > a pedagogical aid (and one for working engineers), not a production
 > system.

Heh, that's cool - I didn't realize it was done for a particular reason.

 > Still, elements of it have shown up in various places.  For instance,
 > the exception handling code for the production bootloader on the
 > Oxide machine is derived from rxv64:

That's cool, I'll have to have a look. I see a lot of posts from people
associated with and about Oxide on mastodon. Sounds like an interesting
place to work at.

Andrew



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