SHRUG Organizational meeting notes 02/09/00
We decided on the following items:
- Meeting time will be Thurdays at 5pm (17:00). Location wasn't set, but 4285 was too small, so 3258 was suggested.
- A Theme was selected: Smart Dust & Nanotechnology Computers. We will focus on the necessary OS decompositions to run on resource constrained
devices.
- We will be studying mainly FreeBSD kernel code, because of its cleanliness and readability, with a possibly Linux subgroup,
because of Linux's popularity and wide-spread use. We will only consider the Intel x86 architecture, as far as hardware and
firmware implementations are relevant to kernel booting and operations.
- We have a newsgroup, csd.shrug.
- Recommended books are Maurice Bach's "The Design of the UNIX Operating System" with the caveat that it is outdated, McKusick et al.'s
"Design and Implementation of the 4.4BSD Operating System" and Stevens' "TCP/IP Illustrated, Vol. 2".
- We will go through the kernel parts by their subdirectories, starting with the boot sequence, networking following after that.
- Rob & Dave will present the boot sequence on 02/17/00, Suman will start on the networking parts after them.
- The presenters shall make web-postable slides for the presentations in PDF.
- A code viewer has been suggested. More at
http://csdl.ics.hawaii.edu/Tools/CSRS/CSRS.html.
- There was a call for machine donations.
Aram Khalili
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