OS161 Learning

Setup

• Follow instructions from UBC University: https://people.ece.ubc.ca/~os161/os161-site/install-docker.html

• Get their docker image and build the container

• Go here to get the OS161 base source tarball http://www.os161.org/download/

• Do your magic (gunzip, tar -xvf) and make sure the folder is named src

• Next your need a config file, a sample config file (provided by UBC) can be obtained by https://people.ece.ubc.ca/~os161/os161-site/install.html

• Then we run the kernel with the help of the sys161 simulator:

    cd ~/os161/root
    sys161 kernel
  

The pieces

• OS/161 Kernel source tree
  • The kernel sources for OS/161 is in the kern subdirectory, which has its own configuration script.
  • The conf.kern file determines what source files get included in our kernel build so we might have to modify the file later on.