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We hope that xv6 will be useful in other -courses too. This page collects resources to aid the use of xv6 in -other courses, including a commentary on the source code itself. - -<h2>History and Background</h2> - -<p>For many years, MIT had no operating systems course. In the fall of 2002, -one was created to teach operating systems engineering. In the course lectures, -the class worked through <a href="#v6">Sixth Edition Unix (aka V6)</a> using -John Lions's famous commentary. In the lab assignments, students wrote most of -an exokernel operating system, eventually named Jos, for the Intel x86. -Exposing students to multiple systems–V6 and Jos–helped develop a -sense of the spectrum of operating system designs. - -<p> -V6 presented pedagogic challenges from the start. -Students doubted the relevance of an obsolete 30-year-old operating system -written in an obsolete programming language (pre-K&R C) -running on obsolete hardware (the PDP-11). -Students also struggled to learn the low-level details of two different -architectures (the PDP-11 and the Intel x86) at the same time. -By the summer of 2006, we had decided to replace V6 -with a new operating system, xv6, modeled on V6 -but written in ANSI C and running on multiprocessor -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 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. -6.828 substituted xv6 for V6 in the fall of 2006. - -<h2>Xv6 sources and text</h2> - -The latest xv6 source is available via -<pre>git clone git://pdos.csail.mit.edu/xv6/xv6.git</pre> -We also distribute the sources as a printed booklet with line numbers -that keep everyone together during lectures. The booklet is available as <a - href="xv6-rev6.pdf">xv6-rev6.pdf</a>. To get the version -corresponding to this booklet, run -<pre>git checkout -b xv6-rev6 xv6-rev6</pre> - -<p> -The xv6 source code is licensed under -the traditional <a href="http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php">MIT -license</a>; see the LICENSE file in the source distribution. To help students -read through xv6 and learn about the main ideas in operating systems we also -distribute a <a href="book-rev6.pdf">textbook/commentary</a> for the latest xv6. -The line numbers in this book refer to the above source booklet. - -<p> -xv6 compiles using the GNU C compiler, -targeted at the x86 using ELF binaries. -On BSD and Linux systems, you can use the native compilers; -On OS X, which doesn't use ELF binaries, -you must use a cross-compiler. -Xv6 does boot on real hardware, but typically -we run it using the QEMU emulator. -Both the GCC cross compiler and QEMU -can be found on the <a href="../2011/tools.html">6.828 tools page</a>. - -<h2>Xv6 lecture material</h2> - -In 6.828, the lectures in the first half of the course cover the xv6 sources and -text. The lectures in the second half consider advanced topics using research -papers; for some, xv6 serves as a useful base for making discussions concrete. -The lecture notes are available from the 6.828 schedule page. - -<a name="v6"></a> -<h2>Unix Version 6</h2> - -<p>6.828's xv6 is inspired by Unix V6 and by: - -<ul> - -<li>Lions' <i>Commentary on UNIX' 6th Edition</i>, John Lions, Peer to -Peer Communications; ISBN: 1-57398-013-7; 1st edition (June 14, 2000). - <ul> - - <li>An on-line version of the <a - href="http://www.lemis.com/grog/Documentation/Lions/">Lions - commentary</a>, and <a href="http://v6.cuzuco.com/">the source code</a>. - - - <li>The v6 source code is also available <a -href="http://minnie.tuhs.org/UnixTree/V6/usr/sys/">online</a> - through <a - href="http://minnie.tuhs.org/PUPS/">the PDP Unix Preservation - Society</a>. - </ul> - -</ul> - -The following are useful to read the original code: -<ul> -<li><i> -The PDP11/40 Processor Handbook</i>, Digital Equipment Corporation, 1972. -<ul> -<li>A <a href="http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.828/2005/readings/pdp11-40.pdf">PDF</a> (made from scanned images, -and not text-searchable) -<li>A <a href="http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.828/2005/pdp11/">web-based -version</a> that is indexed by instruction name. -</ul> - -</ul> - -<h2>Feedback</h2> -If you are interested in using xv6 or have used xv6 in a course, -we would love to hear from you. -If there's anything that we can do to make xv6 easier -to adopt, we'd like to hear about it. -We'd also be interested to hear what worked well and what didn't. -<p> -Russ Cox (rsc@swtch.com)<br> -Frans Kaashoek (kaashoek@mit.edu)<br> -Robert Morris (rtm@mit.edu) -<p> -You can reach all of us at 6.828-staff@pdos.csail.mit.edu. - |