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+# Hypericum Kernel
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+### Notes:
+* id like to use the x86_64 less in the future, right now I'm relying on it for idt and gdt structs as well as page table structs
+    * no reason im doing this outside of i dont want to implement my own versions of what are pretty acceptable defaults
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