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Dominic Sweetman

500 pages, parution le 30/11/2006 (2^eme édition)

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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.

Sweetman has revised his best-selling MIPS bible for MIPS programmers, embedded systems designers, developers and programmers, who need an in-depth understanding of the MIPS architecture and specific guidance for writing software for MIPS-based systems, which are increasingly Linux-based.

L'auteur - Dominic Sweetman

Dominic Sweetman is a member of the last generation of programmers who could reasonably hope to understand computer systems from bottom to top. His rich career began with low-level coding, progressing from OS development to LANs to distributed systems. Dominic is an experienced designer and developer of hardware systems, CPUs, networks, and operating systems. He was a founder member of Whitechapel Workstations, and in 1988 founded Algorithmics, a MIPS consulting firm of which he is the director. Dominic lives with his partner, two grown-up children and three cats in north London.

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RISCs and MIPS
MIPS Architecture
Coprocessor 0: MIPS Processor Control
How Caches work on MIPS
Exceptions, Interrupts, and Initialization
Low-level Memory Management and the TLB
Floating-Point Support
Complete Guide to the MIPS Instruction Set
Reading MIPS Assembler Language
Porting Software to MIPS
MIPS Software Standards ("ABI"s)
Debugging MIPS - debug and profiling features
GNU/Linux from Eight Miles High
How hardware and software work together
MIPS-specific issues in the Linux kernel
Linux Application Code, PIC and Libraries

A: MIPS Multithreading
B: Other Optional extensions to the MIPS instruction set

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	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Morgan Kaufmann
Auteur(s)	Dominic Sweetman
Parution	30/11/2006
Édition	2^eme édition
Nb. de pages	500
Format	19 x 23,5
Couverture	Broché
Poids	1040g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780120884216
ISBN13	978-0-12-088421-6