Reading materials

UNIX

• 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. (local copy) You read this paper in 6.033.
• 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.

x86 Emulation

• Bochs - An x86 platform and CPU emulator.
• User manual
• Debugger reference
• QEMU - A new, much faster but less mature PC emulator. Nelson Elhage has written up directions for using QEMU with OS course. Make sure the code you hand in works with Bochs.

x86 Assembly Language

• PC Assembly Language, Paul A. Carter, November 2003. (local copy)
• Intel 80386 Programmer's Reference Manual, 1987 (HTML). (local copy - PDF) (local copy - HTML)
  Much shorter than the full current Intel Architecture manuals below, but describes all processor features used in 6.828.
• IA-32 Intel Architecture Software Developer's Manuals, Intel, 2007. Local copies:
• Volume I: Basic Architecture
• Volume 2A: Instruction Set Reference, A-M
• Volume 2B: Instruction Set Reference, N-Z
• Volume 3A: System Programming Guide, Part 1
• Volume 3B: System Programming Guide, Part 2
• Multiprocessor references:
• MP specification
• IO APIC
• Writing inline assembly language with GCC:
• Brennan's Guide to Inline Assembly, Brennan "Mr. Wacko" Underwood
• Loading x86 executables in the ELF format:
• Tool Interface Standard (TIS) Executable and Linking Format (ELF).
  The definitive standard for the ELF format.

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)
• PCI programming
• PCI local bus specification, Revision 2.3 March 29, 2002
• VGA display - kern/console.c
• VESA BIOS Extension (VBE) 3.0, Video Electronics Standards Association, September 1998. (local copy)
• VGADOC, Finn Th?gersen, 2000. (local copy - text) (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)
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• 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 - kern/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 6.828 kernel, 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
• Intel 8255x 10/100 Mbps Ethernet Controller Family Open Source Software Developer Manual
• 82559ER Fast Ethernet PCI Controller Datasheet
• The 82559 EEPROM