The little book about OS development

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[h=1]The little book about OS development[/h]

[h=1]Contents[/h]

• 1 Introduction
  
  • 1.1 About the Book
    
  • 1.2 The Reader
    
  • 1.3 Credits, Thanks and Acknowledgements
    
  • 1.4 Changes and Corrections
    
  • 1.5 License
    

  [*]2 First Steps

  • 2.1 Tools
    
    • 2.1.1 Quick Setup
      
    • 2.1.2 Programming Languages
      
    • 2.1.3 Host Operating System
      
    • 2.1.4 Build System
      
    • 2.1.5 Virtual Machine
      

    [*]2.2 Booting

    • 2.2.1 BIOS
      
    • 2.2.2 The Bootloader
      
    • 2.2.3 The Operating System
      

    [*]2.3 Hello Cafebabe

    • 2.3.1 Compiling the Operating System
      
    • 2.3.2 Linking the Kernel
      
    • 2.3.3 Obtaining GRUB
      
    • 2.3.4 Building an ISO Image
      
    • 2.3.5 Running Bochs
      

    [*]2.4 Further Reading

  [*]3 Getting to C

  • 3.1 Setting Up a Stack
    
  • 3.2 Calling C Code From Assembly
    
    • 3.2.1 Packing Structs
      

    [*]3.3 Compiling C Code

    [*]3.4 Build Tools

    [*]3.5 Further Reading

  [*]4 Output

  • 4.1 Interacting with the Hardware
    
  • 4.2 The Framebuffer
    
    • 4.2.1 Writing Text
      
    • 4.2.2 Moving the Cursor
      
    • 4.2.3 The Driver
      

    [*]4.3 The Serial Ports

    • 4.3.1 Configuring the Serial Port
      
    • 4.3.2 Configuring the Line
      
    • 4.3.3 Configuring the Buffers
      
    • 4.3.4 Configuring the Modem
      
    • 4.3.5 Writing Data to the Serial Port
      
    • 4.3.6 Configuring Bochs
      
    • 4.3.7 The Driver
      

    [*]4.4 Further Reading

  [*]5 Segmentation

  • 5.1 Accessing Memory
    
  • 5.2 The Global Descriptor Table (GDT)
    
  • 5.3 Loading the GDT
    
  • 5.4 Further Reading
    

  [*]6 Interrupts and Input

  • 6.1 Interrupts Handlers
    
  • 6.2 Creating an Entry in the IDT
    
  • 6.3 Handling an Interrupt
    
  • 6.4 Creating a Generic Interrupt Handler
    
  • 6.5 Loading the IDT
    
  • 6.6 Programmable Interrupt Controller (PIC)
    
  • 6.7 Reading Input from the Keyboard
    
  • 6.8 Further Reading
    

  [*]7 The Road to User Mode

  • 7.1 Loading an External Program
    
    • 7.1.1 GRUB Modules
      

    [*]7.2 Executing a Program

    • 7.2.1 A Very Simple Program
      
    • 7.2.2 Compiling
      
    • 7.2.3 Finding the Program in Memory
      
    • 7.2.4 Jumping to the Code
      

    [*]7.3 The Beginning of User Mode

  [*]8 A Short Introduction to Virtual Memory

  • 8.1 Virtual Memory Through Segmentation?
    
  • 8.2 Further Reading
    

  [*]9 Paging

  • 9.1 Why Paging?
    
  • 9.2 Paging in x86
    
    • 9.2.1 Identity Paging
      
    • 9.2.2 Enabling Paging
      
    • 9.2.3 A Few Details
      

    [*]9.3 Paging and the Kernel

    • 9.3.1 Reasons to Not Identity Map the Kernel
      
    • 9.3.2 The Virtual Address for the Kernel
      
    • 9.3.3 Placing the Kernel at 0xC0000000
      
    • 9.3.4 Higher-half Linker Script
      
    • 9.3.5 Entering the Higher Half
      
    • 9.3.6 Running in the Higher Half
      

    [*]9.4 Virtual Memory Through Paging

    [*]9.5 Further Reading

  [*]10 Page Frame Allocation

  • 10.1 Managing Available Memory
    
    • 10.1.1 How Much Memory is There?
      
    • 10.1.2 Managing Available Memory
      

    [*]10.2 How Can We Access a Page Frame?

    [*]10.3 A Kernel Heap

    [*]10.4 Further reading

  [*]11 User Mode

  • 11.1 Segments for User Mode
    
  • 11.2 Setting Up For User Mode
    
  • 11.3 Entering User Mode
    
  • 11.4 Using C for User Mode Programs
    
    • 11.4.1 A C Library
      

    [*]11.5 Further Reading

  [*]12 File Systems

  • 12.1 Why a File System?
    
  • 12.2 A Simple Read-Only File System
    
  • 12.3 Inodes and Writable File Systems
    
  • 12.4 A Virtual File System
    
  • 12.5 Further Reading
    

  [*]13 System Calls

  • 13.1 Designing System Calls
    
  • 13.2 Implementing System Calls
    
  • 13.3 Further Reading
    

  [*]14 Multitasking

  • 14.1 Creating New Processes
    
  • 14.2 Cooperative Scheduling with Yielding
    
  • 14.3 Preemptive Scheduling with Interrupts
    
    • 14.3.1 Programmable Interval Timer
      
    • 14.3.2 Separate Kernel Stacks for Processes
      
    • 14.3.3 Difficulties with Preemptive Scheduling
      

    [*]14.4 Further Reading

  [*]15 References

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