The little book about OS development

Re:The little book about OS development by bee_vik on Monday December 26, 2016 @11:47AM (#13258809)

One resource I found myself consulting over and over again was the Intel Architecture Software Development manuals (https://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/intel-sdm). They're huge and obviously a bit dry, but they had about 90% of what I needed to know about x86 memory architecture and interrupts.

I included some other resources I consulted in the README. The OSDev wiki (http://wiki.osdev.org/Main_Page) is also good, although I found some of it to be dated or incorrect.

Good luck on developing your OS. Even though I'm not finished, it's been an extraordinarily valuable and educational process.

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Re:The little book about OS development by steveklabnik on Monday December 26, 2016 @12:28PM (#13258967)

Yeah, I probably need to just take a weekend day and actually read rather than skim and look for secondary sources. The OSDev wiki's pages on this particular topic are all kind of okay, but often aren't talking about long mode, only protected mode, or only have bits and pieces.

Thank you! Good luck with finishing yours, as though these things are ever finished :)

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