Dumb question, Is this course agnostic to processor architecture, or specific to...

Austin T Answered 1 answer
Question by Austin T 3 years ago

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Dumb question, Is this course agnostic to processor architecture, or specific to Intel x86? Thanks.

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Answered by Daniel McCarthy

Instructor

Hi
Thanks for the question, theirs no dumb questions from my students don't worry, always ask away. This course pacifically targets Intel x86 and compatible instruction sets. AMD is compatible with Intel processors supporting majority of the instructions of Intel.

It would be pretty easy to retarget another processor after you finish the course if you chose too. You'd need to recreate the boot loader entirely but most C code could stay exactly the same

Hope that answers your questions

Thanks
Dan