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OS Developer Guide

spenthusiast — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 00:41:23 GMT

I don't see any books by Intel Press on your website that would help me write an OS/hypervisor for Intel CPUs. Back in the days when I used to code in assembly, there were plenty of books around that explained the architecture of Intel CPUs, OS design around your CPUs, etc.

I couldn't find any in the broader x64 markets in terms of books that explained OS design.

Where should I look?

Thanks.

Re: OS Developer Guide

David_O_Intel1 — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 00:59:03 GMT

Your keydocumentation source for Intel virtualization features would be at

http://www.intel.com/products/processor/manuals/index.htm

Look for the manual entitled, "Intel 64 and IA-32 Architectures Software Developer's Manual
Volume 3B: System Programming Guide".

Aside from this, I might look at documentation at the Xen Open Source community, and perhaps even study the Xen source code itself to learnhow various systems issues may be handled. Two links are:

http://www.xen.org/
http://wiki.xensource.com/

Agreed that no books are currently available on Intel Press that speak to this directly. I'm also asking someone internally whether there is in depth info available elsewhere.

Re: OS Developer Guide

David_O_Intel1 — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 20:32:53 GMT

The reply I received is that there are lots of books out therethat discuss implementation issues in the context of Xen.