25 System Configuration
No pleasure endures unseasoned by variety.
— Publilius Syrus
25.1 Introduction
This chapter concludes the discussion of basic operating system design by answering a practical question: how can the code from earlier chapters be transformed to make it suitable for a given computer that has a specific set of peripheral devices?
The chapter discusses the motivation for configuration, tradeoffs between static and dynamic configuration, and presents a basic ...
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