Spring 2017 :: CSE 506 — Operating Systems

OS Textbooks

Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces. Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau and Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau (free online book).
Modern Operating Systems (3rd edition). Andrew S. Tanenbaum. Prentice Hall, 2008.
Operating System Concepts (8th edition). Abraham Silberschatz, Peter Baer Galvin and Greg Gagne. John Wiley & Sons, 2008.

C Programming

The C Programming Language (2nd edition). Brian W. Kernighan and Dennis M. Ritchie. Prentice Hall, 1988.

Linux Kernel Internals

Understanding the Linux Kernel (3rd edition). Daniel P. Bovet and Marco Cesati. O'Reilly & Associates, 2005.
Linux Device Drivers (3rd edition). Jonathan Corbet, Alessandro Rubini and Greg Kroah-Hartman. O'Reilly & Associates, 2005.
This book is has a more accessible introduction to compiling your own kernel and writing your own module than Bovet and Cesati, as it is intended to be a practical guide to writing device drivers.
Linux Kernel Development (3rd edition). Robert Love, Addison-Wesley Professional, 2010.
Understanding Linux Network Internals (3rd edition). Christian Benvenuti. O'Reilly Media, 2005.
Understanding the Linux Virtual Memory Manager. Mel Gorman, 2007.
This book covers the virtual memory subsystem of Linux in great detail and provides an extensive discussion of its API.

Virtual Machines

Hardware and Software Support for Virtualization. Edouard Bugnion, Jason Nieh and Dan Tsafrir. Morgan & Claypool Publishers, 2017.

x86 Assembly Language Programming

(Thanks to Eddie Kohler and MIT's 6.828 course for some of the mmaterial below.)

PC Assembly Language. Paul A. Carter, November 2003.
A good description of x86 assembly language and assembly language in general, including some stuff you ideally know already. You might prefer to read this online, rather than print it out; it's a quick read.
Warning: This book uses "Intel" assembly syntax, in which instructions are written as 'instr dst, src'. GCC uses "AT&T" assembly syntax, in which they are written as 'instr src, dst'.
Brennan's Guide to Inline Assembly. Brennan "Bas" Underwood.
A short and sweet description of how to use inline assembly instructions with GCC. Includes a description of the "AT&T" assembly syntax used by GCC.
Intel® 64 and IA-32 Architectures Software Developer Manuals.
Reference manual for Intel processors. Available in multiple forms (3 individual volumes or a combined book). Volume 1 describes the basic architectures. Volume 2 contains the instruction sets. Volume 3 is a system programming guide.

PC Hardware Programming

General PC architecture information
- Phil Storrs PC Hardware book, Phil Storrs, December 1998.
- Bochs technical hardware specifications directory.
General BIOS and PC bootstrap
- BIOS Central
- BIOS Services and Software Interrupts, Roger Morgan, 1997.
- "El Torito" Bootable CD-ROM Format Specification, Phoenix/IBM, January 1995. (local copy)
VGA display - kern/console.c
- VESA BIOS Extension (VBE) 3.0, Video Electronics Standards Association, September 1998. (local copy)
- VGADOC, Finn Thøgersen, 2000. (local copy - ZIP)
- Free VGA Project, J.D. Neal, 1998.
Keyboard and Mouse - kern/console.c
- Adam Chapweske's resources.
8253/8254 Programmable Interval Timer (PIT) - inc/timerreg.h
- 82C54 CHMOS Programmable Interval Timer, Intel, October 1994. (local copy)
- Data Solutions 8253/8254 Tutorial, Data Solutions.
8259/8259A Programmable Interrupt Controller (PIC) - kern/picirq.*
- 8259A Programmable Interrupt Controller, Intel, December 1988.
Real-Time Clock (RTC) - kern/kclock.*
- Phil Storrs PC Hardware book, Phil Storrs, December 1998. In particular:
  - Understanding the CMOS
  - A list of what is in the CMOS
- CMOS Memory Map, Padgett Peterson, May 1996.
- M48T86 PC Real-Time Clock, ST Microelectronics, April 2004. (local copy)
16550 UART Serial Port - kern/console.c
- PC16550D Universal Asynchronous Receiver/Transmitter with FIFOs, National Semiconductor, 1995.
- Technical Data on 16550, Byterunner Technologies.
- Interfacing the Serial / RS232 Port, Craig Peacock, August 2001.
IEEE 1284 Parallel Port - kern/console.c
- Parallel Port Central, Jan Axelson.
- Parallel Port Background, Warp Nine Engineering.
- IEEE 1284 - Updating the PC Parallel Port, National Instruments.
- Interfacing the Standard Parallel Port, Craig Peacock, August 2001.
IDE hard drive controller - fs/ide.c
- AT Attachment with Packet Interface - 6 (working draft), ANSI, December 2001.
- Programming Interface for Bus Master IDE Controller, Brad Hosler, Intel, May 1994.
- The Guide to ATA/ATAPI documentation, Constantine Sapuntzakis, January 2002.
Sound cards (not supported in JOS, but you're welcome to do it as a challenge problem!)
- Signal Processing using Sound Cards
- Sound Blaster Series Hardware Programming Guide, Creative Technology, 1996.
- 8237A High Performance Programmable DMA Controller, Intel, September 1993.
- Sound Blaster 16 Programming Document, Ethan Brodsky, June 1997.
- Sound Programming, Inverse Reality.
E100 Network Interface Card