Reading materials

UNIX

• Youtube Unix intro
• The UNIX Time-Sharing System, Dennis M. Ritchie and Ken L.Thompson, Bell System Technical Journal 57, number 6, part 2 (July-August 1978) pages 1905-1930.
• The Evolution of the Unix Time-sharing System, Dennis M. Ritchie, 1979.
• The C programming language (second edition) by Kernighan and Ritchie. Prentice Hall, Inc., 1988. ISBN 0-13-110362-8, 1998.

RISC-V Emulation

• QEMU - A fast and popular RISC-V platform and CPU emulator.
  • User manual
• SiFive FU540-C000 Manual
• Virtual I/O Device (VIRTIO)

RISC-V

• The RISC-V Reader: An open architecture atlas by D. Patterson and A. Waterman, Strawberry Canyon, 2017.
• RISC-V unprivileged instructions
• RISC-V privileged instructions
• Calling conventions

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