Operating Systems 2

Resources

The following are only a very small, but representative set of material on the subject. You can always find more on the web.

UNIX

• Unix Intro on Youtube.
• The UNIX time-sharing system, Dennis M. Richie and Ken L. Thompson. Communications of the ACM, Volume 17, Issue 7, pp. 365-375, July 1974.
• For more on UNIX and the C Programming Language, check the archives of the late Dennis Ritchie.

C Programming

• The C programming language (second edition), Kernighan and Ritchie, Prentice Hall, Inc. 1988. Several online copies of this book is available on the web, but I did not put any links here due to copyright issues.

x86 Emulation

• QEMU - A Fast x86 platform and CPU emulator
• Bochs - A more mature, but quirkier and much slower x86 emulator. But, Bochs is a more faithful emulator of real the hardware.

x86 Assembler and Architecture

• PC Assembly Language, Paul A. Carter, November 2003.
• Intel 80386 Programmer’s Reference Manual, Michael Ludwig, 1987. Not an official Intel source, but much shorter than the below set, yet gives the essential information.
• Intel® 64 and IA-32 Architectures Software Developer Manuals
• GCC In-line Assembly, Sandeep S.

PC Hardware Programming

• Phil Storr’s PC Hardware

Debugging

• GNU Debugger GDB
• GDB Tutorial
• GDB Tutorial - A walkthrough with Examples
• A YouTube video on GDB

xv6 operating system

We will use the latest edition (Spetember 4, 2018)

• xv6-public
• xv6-book.

You can also get the pdf versions of both the book and the code.

Zephyr Project

The following link is the main resource of the Zephyr project.

• Zephyr

Tock operating system

The following link is the main resource of the tock operating system.

• Tock

Some relevant Blogs (written by Gustavo Duarte)

• Motherboard Chipsets and the Memory Map
• How Computers Boot Up
• The Kernel Boot Process
• Memory Translation and Segmentation
• CPU Rings, Priviledge, and Protection
• What your Computer does While you Wait
• Getting Physical With Memory
• Anatomy of a Program in memory
• How the Kernel Manages Your Memory
• Page Cache, the Affair Between Memory and files
• Journey to The Stack, Part I
• Recursion: Dream With a Dream
• Closures, Objects, and the Fauna of the Heap
• When Does Your OS Run?
• System Calls Make the World G Round