Open Hendiadyoin1 opened 8 months ago
Renaming PageDirectory -> PageTable. The RISC-V spec never uses the former, and I suspect AArch64 is similar.
PageDirectory refers to a specific level of page table. I'm not sure if it really makes sense to rename it? It needs a specific implementation on x86_64, even if the RISC architectures we're looking at treat each level of page table the same.
Since the i386-only days our Kernel grew quite organically, with some old code, concepts and designs not holding up to the current times here I will collect old burdens of interface design and the like
ip
) -> Program Counter (pc
)bp
) -> Frame Pointer (frame_pointer
)I will try to keep this list up to date, as things are resolved and new things are found