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- UART: 8250/16550
- PLIC (platform-level interrupt controller): 32 interrupts, no priority
- Standard SBI, with the timer extension
- VirtIO: virtio-blk acquires disk image from the host, and virtio-net is mapped as TAP interface
- VirtIO:
- virtio-net: Mapped with TAP interface to the host
- virtio-blk: Acquires disk image from the host to the guest
- virtio-gpu: Currently supports 2D rendering mode with SDL as front-end

## Prerequisites

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$ brew install dtc
```

[SDL2](https://www.libsdl.org/) and [Pixman](https://www.pixman.org/) are required for enabling virtio-gpu.
To install them on Debian/Ubuntu Linux, enter the following command:

```shell
sudo apt install libsdl2-dev libsdl2-2.0-0 libsdl2-image-dev libsdl2-image-2.0-0 \
libpixman-1-dev
```

For demonstration purposes, ext4 is used for file system mounting.
`ext4` is a native Linux filesystem, offering stability, high capacity, reliability,
and performance while requiring minimal maintenance. The `mkfs.ext4` command can
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