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  <title>HelenOS Design Documentation</title>
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  <title>HelenOS Design Documentation</title>
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  <chapter>
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  <chapter>
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    <title>Introduction to HelenOS</title>
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  <title>Introduction</title>
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    <section>
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      <para>The HelenOS project is an effort to develop an easily portable,
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      <title>HelenOS Logo</title>
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      light but durable operating system. HelenOS supports SMP, multitasking
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      <para>
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      and multithreading on both 32-bit and 64-bit, little-endian and
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      big-endian, processor architectures, among wich are AMD64/EM64T
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      (x86-64), IA-32, IA-64 (Itanium), 32-bit MIPS, 32-bit PowerPC and SPARC
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      V9.</para>
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      <para>This manual should help you understanding design concepts of
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      <title>Our hosting partner</title>
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      different part of the operating system.</para>
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      <para>In case you are interested in our project or have any questions
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      about it, feel free to subscribe to our <ulink
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      url="http://www.helenos.eu/?reason=list">mailing list</ulink>. We are
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      looking for people to join our team or to merely try out our system and
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      become our beta testers.</para>
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    <title>Architecture review</title>
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    <title>Architecture review</title>
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    <title>Scheduling</title>
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    <title>Scheduling</title>
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    <title>Synchronization</title>
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    <title>Synchronization</title>
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    <title>Memory management</title>
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    <title>Memory management</title>
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      <title>Virtual memory management</title>
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      <title>Virtual memory management</title>
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      <title>Physical memory management</title>
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      <title>Physical memory management</title>
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      <title>Kernel allocators</title>
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      <title>Kernel allocators</title>
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        <title>Buddy allocator</title>
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        <title>Buddy allocator</title>
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        <para>Physical memory allocation is handled by buddy allocator.
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        <para>Physical memory allocation is handled by buddy allocator.</para>
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        <title>Slab allocator</title>
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        <title>Slab allocator</title>
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      <title>Memory sharing</title>
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      <title>Memory sharing</title>
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    <title>Hardware handling. Device drivers.</title>
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    <title>Hardware handling. Device drivers.</title>
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    <title>IPC</title>
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    <title>User-space</title>
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    <title>User-space</title>
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</book>
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</book>