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Do you have more information or some links about OS development on ARM?

by eterps 15y ago

lgeek 15y ago
Implementing an operating system isn't that different between the main CPU architectures. I think mcpherrinm was just saying that you have to do a lot less work than for x86, for example, in order to get a minimum of functionality. Unfortunately I don't know of any guides on implementing a toy OS on ARM. The operating systems course I've taken was a decent starting point, but it mostly deals with theory: [0]. There's also a first year ARM architecture course: [1] Another course I've taken was about ASM programming on ARM, plus programming some simple hardware[2]. I'm not sure how useful are those materials for someone not taking the courses, but they might offer a list of things to look up somewhere else. Wikipedia actually has some good background theory. Finally, you might look over the ARM port of EDK2[3]. EDK2 is a BSD-licensed implementation of UEFI[4]. It implements a lot of the functionality of a regular operating system, with the notable exception of multithreading. I find the source code of EDK2 to be easier to understand than the source of the Linux kernel. Probably because it is a lot more lightweight. You can run it on BealgeBoard, by the way. I'd say it's alpha quality software at the moment, so you might get some weird bugs. Disclaimer: I'm a CS student at Manchester University and I work on EDK2. 0: http://www.cs.manchester.ac.uk/ugt/2010/COMP25111/ http://www.cs.manchester.ac.uk/ugt/2010/COMP25111/ 1: http://www.cs.manchester.ac.uk/ugt/2010/COMP15111/ http://www.cs.manchester.ac.uk/ugt/2010/COMP15111/ 2: http://www.cs.manchester.ac.uk/ugt/2010/COMP22712/ http://www.cs.manchester.ac.uk/ugt/2010/COMP22712/ 3: http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/tianocore/index.php?title=EDK2 http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/tianocore/index.php?ti... 4: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified_Extensible_Firmware_Interface http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified_Extensible_Firmware_Int...

Do you have more information or some links about OS development on ARM?

by eterps 15y ago

Do you have more information or some links about OS development on ARM?

lgeek 15y ago

Implementing an operating system isn't that different between the main CPU architectures. I think mcpherrinm was just saying that you have to do a lot less work than for x86, for example, in order to get a minimum of functionality. Unfortunately I don't know of any guides on implementing a toy OS on ARM. The operating systems course I've taken was a decent starting point, but it mostly deals with theory: [0]. There's also a first year ARM architecture course: [1] Another course I've taken was about ASM programming on ARM, plus programming some simple hardware[2]. I'm not sure how useful are those materials for someone not taking the courses, but they might offer a list of things to look up somewhere else. Wikipedia actually has some good background theory. Finally, you might look over the ARM port of EDK2[3]. EDK2 is a BSD-licensed implementation of UEFI[4]. It implements a lot of the functionality of a regular operating system, with the notable exception of multithreading. I find the source code of EDK2 to be easier to understand than the source of the Linux kernel. Probably because it is a lot more lightweight. You can run it on BealgeBoard, by the way. I'd say it's alpha quality software at the moment, so you might get some weird bugs. Disclaimer: I'm a CS student at Manchester University and I work on EDK2. 0: http://www.cs.manchester.ac.uk/ugt/2010/COMP25111/ http://www.cs.manchester.ac.uk/ugt/2010/COMP25111/ 1: http://www.cs.manchester.ac.uk/ugt/2010/COMP15111/ http://www.cs.manchester.ac.uk/ugt/2010/COMP15111/ 2: http://www.cs.manchester.ac.uk/ugt/2010/COMP22712/ http://www.cs.manchester.ac.uk/ugt/2010/COMP22712/ 3: http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/tianocore/index.php?title=EDK2 http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/tianocore/index.php?ti... 4: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified_Extensible_Firmware_Interface http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified_Extensible_Firmware_Int...