Need help understanding memory models, cpu modes and address translation

Paraneetharan Chandrasekaran paraneetharanc at gmail.com
Wed Jul 13 06:53:58 EDT 2011


The document and osdev are very good and useful. Thanks a lot.

- Paraneetharan C

On 13 July 2011 14:23, amit mehta <gmate.amit at gmail.com> wrote:

> Tons of resource
> http://wiki.osdev.org/
>
> On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 2:07 PM, Vaibhav Jain <vjoss197 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Thanks for the link.I really appreciate but I need something more basic
> and
> > something that
> > explains these concepts from a broader perspective and not in the context
> of
> > a
> > particular cpu architecture.Please send me more such links if you come
> > across any.
> >
> > Thanks
> > Vaibhav Jain
> >
> > On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 1:14 AM, Daniel Baluta <daniel.baluta at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> > I am eager to understand the basics of Memory models  (flat, segmented
> >> > etc)
> >> > , CPU modes (real,protected)
> >> > and address translation (physical to logical etc.) and how all of them
> >> > work
> >> > together. I am very confused
> >> > about this and would really appreciate if someone could provide good
> >> > references to these topics.
> >>
> >> You may find useful information inside i366 Programmers Manual.
> >> Anyhow, reading materials is the first step in understanding these
> >> concepts. You will have to actually  read/write/debug pieces of code
> >> related to them.
> >>
> >> thanks,
> >> Daniel.
> >>
> >> [1] pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.828/2010/readings/i386.pdf
> >
> >
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Paraneetharan C
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