January 2004
Intermediate to advanced
432 pages
11h 1m
English
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Preface
While there are many books about the UNIX kernel in its various versions, this is the first to deal specifically with HP-UX and Hewlett-Packard's PA-RISC architecture. This book is a technical resource for anyone who has to support HP-UX, write kernel modules, or just wants to know how it all works. It is suitable as a text for a class in operating system concepts or HP-UX internals.
Chapter 1 PA-RISC 2.0 Architecture
Chapter 1 presents some of the important features of the PA-RISC architecture, still the predominant hardware platform for HP-UX. It covers the register set and how the registers are used, then explains virtual memory concepts, address translation and caching, the mechanisms provided by the architecture to support virtual ...