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actually_a_dog on May 21, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: How to port your OS to EC2 (2018)

I believe the GP comment was referring to the plethora of basic/hobbyist OS'es out there. For instance, see https://wiki.osdev.org/Bare_Bones#Implementing_the_Kernel

I'm pretty sure EC2 would barf on that, even if you were running in 32-bit mode.

Syonyk on May 21, 2021 [–]

Correct.

Though I see no reason why EC2 would barf on it, as long as you support the proper hardware. They just don't include a lot of legacy hardware you find on a more standard bit of x86 hardware.

Now, if you wanted a really interesting article, discuss how to port your OS to run on the EC2 ARM instances!

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