Reading materials

Operating Systems Textbooks

• xv6: A simple, Unix-like teaching operating system by R. Cox, F. Kaashoek, and R. Morris.
  • Our primary textbook. Used for hands-on learning about operating systems.
• OS Three Easy Pieces by Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau and Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau.
  • Our supplemental textbook. Used for various operating system concepts such as virtual memory, schedulers, and threads.
• The Little Book of Semaphores by Allen B. Downey.
  • Used to understand semaphores in the barrier problem

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.

C Programming Language

• The C Programming Language (second edition) Brian W. Kernighan and Dennis M. 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
• RISC-V Reference Card

GDB

• GDB Webpages TOC
• GDB Webpages Index
• GDB Reference Card

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