[lug] Reading material (was: Steganography, etc. etc.)
Chris Riddoch
socket at peakpeak.com
Mon Jul 16 03:30:16 MDT 2001
Sorry. I got about halfway through this before deciding that we should
save your wrists and others' mailboxes with idle and misinformed
conjecture about the nature of the boot process and minute details of
CPU/Memory interaction, and should read a little about hardware before
continuing with the debate. Might I suggest:
Linux Kernel Internals:
http://www.moses.uklinux.net/patches/lki.html
The Operating Resource Center:
http://www.nondot.org/~sabre/os/articles
The Art of Assembly Language Programming
http://webster.cs.ucr.edu/Page_asm/ArtofAssembly/ArtofAsm.html
Computer Architecture Page
http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~arch/www/online.html
You should pay particular attention to how multitasking, permissions,
threads, locking, and I/O are implemented and the specific hardware
support, because the hardware support that enables these features is
extremely subtle and shows the minimalist design goals of hardware
designers.
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