HPET: 64-bit main counter
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Assessment
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100
- Issue type
- Feature
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Activity status
- Stale
- Tech stack
- c
- Domain
- operating-systems
Research direction
Start by reading src/lib/vmm/io/vhpet.c around line 96 and the surrounding HPET implementation. Determine the design and scope required for a 64-bit main counter; the work is done when that counter is implemented and its behavior is validated.
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Description
What would it take to implement 64-bit main counter - https://github.com/moby/hyperkit/blob/8975f80ae46ef315e600552328ba63af09b742f7/src/lib/vmm/io/vhpet.c#L96?
- Dominant language
- C
- Stars
- 3.7k
- Forks
- 336
- PR merge metrics
- No merged PRs in 30d
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