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Add links to other useful OS crates
Fixes #372 Signed-off-by: Joe Richey <[email protected]>
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If only the `instructions` feature is enabled (`--no-default-features --features instructions`), Rust 1.59.0 is required.
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If the `nightly` feature or any of its sub-features is enabled, a recent nightly is required.
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## Other OS development crates
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This crate does not attempt to handle every facet of OS development. Other
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useful crates in this space include:
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- [`raw-cpuid`](https://crates.io/crates/raw-cpuid): safe wrappers around the
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[`cpuid` instruction](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CPUID)
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- Provides parsed versions of the CPUID data, rather than just raw binary values.
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- Support for AMD and Intel specific values.
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- Works on x86 and x86_64 systems, in both user and kernel mode.
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- [`uefi`](https://crates.io/crates/uefi): abstractions for
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[UEFI](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified_Extensible_Firmware_Interface)
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(the successor to BIOS)
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- Provides UEFI tables, functions, and types.
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- Useful for writing UEFI applications, or calling UEFI functions from your OS.
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- Works on a variety of modern platforms, not just x86_64.
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- [`volatile`](https://crates.io/crates/volatile): interface to
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[`read_volatile`](https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/ptr/fn.read_volatile.html) and
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[`write_volatile`](https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/ptr/fn.write_volatile.html)
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- Makes it easier to program [MMIO](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory-mapped_I/O) interfaces and devices.
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- Works on any Rust target.

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