StuBS Documentation

Semester Overview

• Assignment 1: Input and Output
• Assignment 2: Interrupts

References

• Git introduction: Pro Git (Scott Chacon and Ben Straub, 2nd Edition).
• C++ Introduction for OS Developers
• Development environment for StuBS
• Assembly
  • Introduction to Assembler
  • Linux Insides: Inline assembly
  • GCC-Inline-Assembly-HOWTO

Hardware

• Intel Software Developer Manuals (ISDM)
  • Volume 1 (Basic Architecture)
  • Volume 2 (Instruction Set Reference)
  • Volume 3 (System Programming Guide)
  • Volume 4 (Model-Specific Registers)
• AMD64 Architecture Programmer’s Manual
  • Volume 1 (Application Programming)
  • Volume 2 (System Programming)
  • Volume 3 (General-Purpose and System Instructions)
  • Volume 4 (128-Bit and 256-Bit Media Instructions)
  • Volume 5 (64-Bit Media and x87 Floating-Point Instructions)
• I/O Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller (IOAPIC)
• Advanced Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI) Specification
• VESA BIOS Extension (VBE) Core Functions (Version 3)
• Serial
  • 8250A UART
  • 16550D UART

Software

• SystemV Application Binary Interface (ABI) x86 and x64
• Multiboot Specification (version 0.6.96)