Specifications, manuals, academic papers used, and notes written while developing the Cute kernel.

##Documentation:

What all of this is about!

Important technical details, bugs, and experiences discovered while developing this project. That's the repository's main document.

Study notes for a number of scheduling-related papers.

These notes discuss the origin of multi-level feedback queues (beginning form the 1962's CTSS system, and moving to the Unix jungle of SVR2/3, Solaris, and the BSDs), spinlocks (from VAX/VMS), general- purpose kernel preemption, per-CPU runqueues and data areas (VAX/VMS, DEC OSF/1, and WinNT), and thread scheduling soft and hard affinity (by the innovative DEC engineers again).

Study notes for a number of filesystem-related papers.

Primary sources for the classcial Multics and Unix SVR2 filesystems, BSD's FFS, Microsoft's FAT32 & NTFS, and Linux ext2/ext3 are throughly discussed.

##Material:

Some of the folders stated below also include their own README files.

Old and new specs of Intel and AMD x86(-64) CPUs. Closely related topics like the x86 'memory consistency model' are also included.

Official manuals for our development tools (e.g. gcc, and make). These official documents are usually more than enough; dumbed- down resources are disastrous for low-level development.

Miscellaneous resources and self-written notes

Specs of the 'hardware<->software' interface used by our kernel; examples include timers, interrupt controllers, and BIOS tables.

Historical and relatively new research that was needed while working on this interesting project. Detailed notes I've written while studying these papers are also included.