Toying Around With Xv6 X86
From the project’s Github repository:
xv6 is a re-implementation of Dennis Ritchie’s and Ken Thompson’s Unix Version 6 (v6). xv6 loosely follows the structure and style of v6, but is implemented for a modern x86-based multiprocessor using ANSI C.
Having a small footprint and code base, xv6 is an excellent tool to deepen in operating systems internals, like boot process, virtual memory setup, basics of a filesystem…
The version I tried is the i386 port, but again in the project’s repo we can read: