Project Handouts Project 1 Project One Handout Project One Support Code Project 2 Project Two Handout (ps) (pdf) Project Two Support Code Project Two Part Two Handout (ps) (pdf) Project Two Part Two Support Code Project 3 Project Three Handout Project Three Support Code Linker Script for a.out exec2obj binary/.h file PRCS Sourceforge Site PRCS Documentation Segmentation Handout Userspace lprintf, malloc, snprintf, and shell Project 4 Project Four Handout Project Four Support Code Project Four Test Suite Project Four Test Suite Setup Guide

How to Boot Your Kernels on Real Hardware

To boot your project 1 kernel on real hardware, first copy the kernel into the bootfd.img. You can do this by issuing these commands:

echo "drive k:file\"$(PWD)/bootfd.img\"" > ~/.mtoolsrc
mcopy -o kernel K:/boot/

Then get a blank floppy and insert it. Issue this command:

dd if=./bootfd.img of=/dev/fd0

Then, simply reboot your machine with the floppy inserted. Do NOT attempt to boot your kernels on cluster machines. Also, since project 2 currently relies on a hard disk as well, do NOT attempt to boot your project 2 kernel on real hardware.

Important Project-Related Documents

This is Virtutech's "user manual" for Simics. It covers many different things (perhaps the single most important piece of information is the existence of the 'help' command in Simics). In order to view it, you need to register with Virtutech (this is free and usually fast).
https://www.simics.net/mwf/simics-user-guide-unix/vh?index.html

These three Intel reference guides are extremely comprehensive and actually very well written. Do take the time to look over them, they will be useful in doing each of your projects. These documents are hundreds of pages - do NOT attempt to print them out (at least, not on a campus printer).

• Intel architecture guide. Explains the basic organization of the processor and fundamental concepts like the execution environment, procedure calls and interrupts, and I/O.

• Intel instruction set reference. A long volume documenting each x86 instruction.

• Intel system programming guide. Probably the most interesting of the three documents. Explains privilege levels, segmentation and paging, how to handle interrupts and exceptions, and a host of other things.