Architecture
In this part we are going to cover the most Architecture specific
topic, and some basic drivers that are needed in early stages of
development. Below the list of chapters:
Overview An overview on most of the
topics covered byHello World The kernel says its
first words…Higher Half We are moving everything
done so far where it usually belongs, the higher half of the memoryThe GDT One of the architecture specific
chapters, the Global Descriptor Table, used to “describe” the behaviour
of different part of memoryInterrupt Handling How to
handle the interrupts and exceptions generated by the CPU, and external
resourcesACPI Tables The ACPI tables, and how to
parse themAPIC The Advanced Programmable Interrupt
Controller, along with the IOAPIC they replace the old PIC to handle
interrupts coming from external hardwareTimers We initialize, configure and start
a timerPS2 Keyboard Overview
Introduction to the PS2 Keyboard Driver implementationPS2 Keyboard Interrupt
Handling How to handle the interrupt generated by the keyboard, and
introduction of some of the basic conceptsPS2 Keyboard Driver
implementation Finally how to translate the scancode we received
into readable characters.