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| author | kaashoek <kaashoek> | 2008-09-03 12:29:44 +0000 |
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| committer | kaashoek <kaashoek> | 2008-09-03 12:29:44 +0000 |
| commit | e87dca5cc55fb4452a38d4a1130a61cf82faa563 (patch) | |
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add slides for shell, x86 intro, x86 virtual memory (deleted JOS from slides)
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diff --git a/web/index.txt b/web/index.txt index 41d42a4..e3b0c95 100644 --- a/web/index.txt +++ b/web/index.txt @@ -36,11 +36,10 @@ Intel x86 machines. Xv6's use of the x86 makes it more relevant to students' experience than V6 was and unifies the course around a single architecture. -Adding multiprocessor support also helps relevance -and makes it easier to discuss threads and concurrency. -(In a single processor operating system, concurrency--which only -happens because of interrupts--is too easy to view as a special case. -A multiprocessor operating system must attack the problem head on.) +Adding multiprocessor support requires handling concurrency head on with +locks and threads (instead of using special-case solutions for +uniprocessors such as +enabling/disabling interrupts) and helps relevance. Finally, writing a new system allowed us to write cleaner versions of the rougher parts of V6, like the scheduler and file system. @@ -51,7 +50,8 @@ Since then, xv6 has stabilized, so we are making it available in the hopes that others will find it useful too. 6.828 uses both xv6 and Jos. -Courses taught at UCLA, NYU, and Stanford have used +Courses taught at UCLA, NYU, Peking University, Stanford, Tsinghua, +and University Texas (Austin) have used Jos without xv6; we believe other courses could use xv6 without Jos, though we are not aware of any that have. @@ -101,6 +101,7 @@ Jos labs, students implement a Unix-like interface and culminating in a Unix shell. [l1.html | lecture notes] +[os-lab-1.pdf | OS abstractions slides] Lecture 2. PC hardware and x86 programming @@ -115,6 +116,7 @@ Reading: PC Assembly Language Homework: familiarize with Bochs [l2.html | lecture notes] +[os-lab-2.pdf | x86 intro slides] [x86-intro.html | homework] @@ -154,6 +156,7 @@ xv6: bootasm.S, bootother.S, bootmain.c, main.c, init.c, and setupsegs in proc.c Homework: Bochs stack introduction [l4.html | lecture notes] +[os-lab-3.pdf | x86 virtual memory slides] [xv6-intro.html | homework] |