See Mips Run, 2nd Edition
Dominic Sweetman
ISBN: 978-0-12-088421-6
This second edition is not
only a thorough update of the first edition, it is also a marriage
of the best-known RISC architecture--MIPS--with the best-known
open-source OS--Linux. The first part of the book begins with MIPS
design principles and then describes the MIPS instruction set and
programmers’ resources. It uses the MIPS32
standard as a baseline (the 1st edition used the R3000) from which
to compare all other versions of the architecture and assumes that
MIPS64 is the main option. The second part is a significant change
from the first edition. It provides concrete examples of operating
system low level code, by using Linux as the example operating
system. It describes how Linux is built on the foundations the
MIPS hardware provides and summarizes the Linux application environment,
describing the libraries, kernel device-drivers and CPU-specific
code. It then digs deep into application code and library support,
protection and memory management, interrupts in the Linux kernel
and multiprocessor Linux... [more]
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