If you are going to study this you should also read the Lion's Commentary of the Unix 6th Edition (kernel)[0]. It provides a line by line commentary of the whol

If you are going to study this you should also read the Lion's Commentary of the Unix 6th Edition (kernel)[0]. It provides a line by line commentary of the whole kernel (minus some of the hardware specific drivers). Xv6 is a port of the edition 6 kernel to x86 (with some minor changes). [0] http://www.amazon.com/Lions-Commentary-Unix-John/dp/1573980137/ http://www.amazon.com/Lions-Commentary-Unix-John/dp/15739801...