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Reading materials
Selection of Operating System Papers
Available on the 6.828 schedule.
UNIX
x86 Emulation
- Bochs - An x86 platform
and CPU emulator.
- QEMU -
A new, much faster but less mature PC emulator.
Nelson Elhage has written up
directions
for using QEMU with 6.828. Make sure the
code you hand in works with Bochs.
x86 Assembly Language
PC Hardware Programming
- General PC architecture information
- General BIOS and PC bootstrap
- VGA display - kern/console.c
- Keyboard and Mouse - kern/console.c
- 8253/8254 Programmable Interval Timer (PIT)
- inc/timerreg.h
- 8259/8259A Programmable Interrupt Controller (PIC)
- kern/picirq.*
- Real-Time Clock (RTC)
- kern/kclock.*
- 16550 UART Serial Port - kern/console.c
- IEEE 1284 Parallel Port - kern/console.c
- IDE hard drive controller - fs/ide.c
- Sound cards
(not supported in 6.828 kernel,
but you're welcome to do it as a challenge problem!)
- E100 Network Interface Card
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