Jolix
/joh'liks/ n.,adj. 386BSD

---

Porting Unix to the 386: A Practical Approach



William & Lynne Jolitz

Suggested Readings Leffler, Samuel J., Marshall Kirk McKusick, Michael J. Karels, and John S. Quarterman. The Design and Implementation of the 4.3BSD UNIX Operating System. Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley, 1989. Crawford, John H., and Patrick P. Gelsinger. Programming the 80386. Alameda, Calif.: Sybex, 1987. IBM Technical Reference: Personal Computer AT. Boca Rotan, Fla.: IBM, 1984. <<BACK INDEX Tags: 4.3bsd | designing the software specification | operating system | porting unix to the 386 | porting unix | design and implementation | tags

Most Read: Most Popular: Section: Porting Unix to the 386: Designing the Software Specification Getting Started: References, Equipment, and Software Development of the 386BSD Specification The Definition of the 386BSD Specification Conflicts in Priorities 386BSD Port Goals: A Practical Approach Microprocessor and System Specification Issues 386 Memory Management Vitals Segmentation and 386BSD Kernel Linear Address Space Overhead Virtual Address Space Layout Per-Process Data Structures 386 Virtual Memory Address Translation Mechanism User to Kernel Communication Primitives Berkeley UNIX Virtual Memory System Strategy Structure of Per-Process Data (u.) Process Context Description Page Fault and Segmentation Fault Mechanism Other Processor Faults Microprocessor Idiosyncrasies System Call Interface System Specific (ISA) Issues Physical Memory Map ISA Device Controllers ISA Device Auto Configuration Interrupt Priority Level Management Bootstrap Operation Summary: Where is 386BSD Now? > Suggested Readings Return to: Porting Unix to the 386: A Practical Approach

Copyright 1989, 1990, 2006 TeleMuse Partners, William Jolitz and Lynne Jolitz