IA-64 Linux Kernel : Design and Implementation (0130610143)

The book starts with an overview of Linux and the IA-64 architecture and then discusses each major subsystem of the kernel in more detail. Among others, there are separate chapters on how multi-tasking maps onto the underlying hardware, on the virtual memory subsystem, device support (programemd I/O, DMA & interrupts), symmetric multi-processing (SMP), and on the bootstrap procedure needed to bring a computer to live. These chapters place great emphasis not just on the "what", but also on the "how" and "why" of how Linux accomplishes its tasks. Each chapter has two primary components: the first describes the interfaces that the Linux kernel uses to abstract platform differences, and the second describes how these interfaces have been realized for IA-64. This structure makes the book useful not just to those readers interested specifically in IA-64 Linux, but also to anyone who would like to gain a better understanding of how Linux works on other platform.

Product details

• Format Paperback | 560 pages
• Dimensions 186 x 241 x 45mm | 962g
• Publication date 05 Mar 2002
• Publisher Pearson Education (US)
• Imprint Prentice Hall
• Publication City/Country Upper Saddle River, United States
• Language English
• Illustrations note w. 200 figs.
• ISBN10 0130610143
• ISBN13 9780130610140
• Bestsellers rank 2,651,118

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