Operating system design : the Xinu approach / by Douglas Comer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Comer, Douglas, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Xinu.

Operating systems (Computers).

System design.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (694 p.)

Edition:

2nd ed.

Place of Publication:

Boca Raton, FL : Chapman and Hall/CRC, an imprint of Taylor and Francis, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

An Update of the Most Practical A-to-Z Operating System BookWidely lauded for avoiding the typical black box approach found in other operating system textbooks, the first edition of this bestselling book taught readers how an operating system works and explained how to build it from the ground up. Continuing to follow a logical pattern for system design, Operating System Design: The Xinu Approach, Second Edition removes the mystery from operating system design and consolidates the body of material into a systematic discipline. It presents a hierarchical design paradigm that organizes major operating system components in an orderly, understandable manner. The book guides readers through the construction of a conventional process-based operating system using practical, straightforward primitives. It gives the implementation details of one set of primitives, usually the most popular set. Once readers understand how primitives can be implemented on conventional hardware, they can then easily implement alternative versions.The text begins with a bare machine and proceeds step-by-step through the design and implementation of Xinu, which is a small, elegant operating system that supports dynamic process creation, dynamic memory allocation, network communication, local and remote file systems, a shell, and device-independent I/O functions. The Xinu code runs on many hardware platforms. This second edition has been completely rewritten to contrast operating systems for RISC and CISC processors. Encouraging hands-on experimentation, the book provides updated code throughout and examples for two low-cost experimenter boards: BeagleBone Black from ARM and Galileo from Intel.

Contents:

Front Cover; Dedication; Contents; Preface; About the Author; Chapter Contents; Chapter 1 Introduction And Overview; Chapter Contents; Chapter 2 Concurrent Execution And Operating System Services; Chapter Contents; Chapter 3 An Overview Of The Hardware And Runtime Environment; Chapter Contents; Chapter 4 List And Queue Manipulation; Chapter Contents; Chapter 5 Scheduling And Context Switching; Chapter Contents; Chapter 6 More Process Management; Chapter Contents; Chapter 7 Coordination Of Concurrent Processes; Chapter Contents; Chapter 8 Message Passing; Chapter Contents

Chapter 9 Basic Memory ManagementChapter Contents; Chapter 10 High- level Memory Management and Virtual Memory; Chapter Contents; Chapter 11 High- level Message Passing; Chapter Contents; Chapter 12 Interrupt Processing; Chapter Contents; Chapter 13 Real- time Clock Management; Chapter Contents; Chapter 14 Device- independent Input And Output; Chapter Contents; Chapter 15 An Example Device Driver; Chapter Contents; Chapter 16 DMA Devices And Drivers ( Ethernet); Chapter Contents; Chapter 17 A Minimal Internet Protocol Stack; Chapter Contents; Chapter 18 A Remote Disk Driver; Chapter Contents

Chapter 19 File SystemsChapter Contents; Chapter 20 A Remote File Mechanism; Chapter Contents; Chapter 21 A Syntactic Namespace; Chapter Contents; Chapter 22 System Initialization; Chapter Contents; Chapter 23 Subsystem Initialization And Memory Marking; Chapter Contents; Chapter 24 Exception Handling; Chapter Contents; Chapter 25 System Configuration; Chapter Contents; Chapter 26 An Example User Interface: The Xinu Shell; Appendix 1 Porting An Operating System; Appendix 2 Xinu Design Notes; Back Cover

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-429-19074-3

1-4987-1244-4

9780429190742

OCLC:

891611290