Faculty for Computer Science Operating Systems Group Master Thesis Summer semester 2018 PylotOS - an interpreted Operating System Submitted by: Naumann, Stefan
[email protected] Programme of study: Master Informatik 3rd semester Matriculation number: XXXXXX Supervisors: Christine Jakobs Dr. Peter Tröger Prof. Dr. Matthias Werner Submission deadline: 11th July 2018 Contents 1. Introduction 1 2. Preliminary Considerations 3 2.1. Textbook Operating System Architecture . 3 2.1.1. Processes and Interprocess Communication . 4 2.1.2. Driver Model . 6 2.2. Platform Considerations . 9 2.2.1. Intel x86 . 9 2.2.2. Raspberry Pi . 11 3. Existing Implementations 13 3.1. Related Work . 13 3.2. The C subroutine library . 15 3.2.1. Device drivers and files . 15 3.2.2. Process Management . 16 3.3. 4.3BSD . 16 3.3.1. Process Management . 16 3.3.2. Interprocess Communication . 19 3.3.3. Driver Architecture . 21 3.3.4. System Start-up . 23 3.4. Linux 2.6 . 26 3.4.1. Handling Interrupts and Exceptions . 26 3.4.2. Linux I/O Architecture and device drivers . 30 3.4.3. Levels of kernel support for a device . 33 3.5. Windows 2000 . 34 3.5.1. Interrupt Handling . 34 3.5.2. I/O System . 36 3.5.3. I/O Manager . 37 3.5.4. Structure of a Driver . 39 3.5.5. Plug and Play . 40 3.5.6. Power Manager . 41 3.5.7. I/O Data Structures (ntddk.h) . 42 3.6.JX ................................................... 43 3.6.1. Architectural Overview . 44 3.6.2.