Advanced Operating Systems Advanced Systems Teaching (ASysT)
LabThe ASysT lab is organised around 64-bit computers
(``U4600'') based on a 100 MHz MIPS R4700 processor. The U4600
was developed by Kevin Elphinstone (former UNSW PhD student) and
Dave Johnson. It is especially designed to allow experimentation
with operating systems code. Presently, these machines run the
L4 microkernel. Technical details:The nodes are based on a
locally designed and manufactured ATX form factor motherboard.
The motherboard features:- The nodes are hosted on UNIX
computers, presently PC's running Solaris. These contain a
development environment which allows you to compile code, link
it with the L4 microkernel, and download it to the U4600 via
ethernet. The hosts also interface to the serial port on the
U4600 for console I/O. How to use:Make sure that ~cs9242/bin is
in your PATH, and that the environment ARCH is set to
pc.i86.linux. The former is normally achieved by using the
newclass command, the latter is set up automatically b