The following schedule is tentative and subject to change without notice.

Credit: Most of slides for this lecture are based on materials provided by the authors of the textbook and references.

For project submission and automatic grading, we are running a dedicated server at https://sys.snu.ac.kr. If you want to access the sys server outside of the SNU campus, please send a request via a Google Form whose URL is posted in the eTL.

Project #2: System Calls

System calls are interfaces that allow user applications to request various services from the operating system kernel. This project aims to explore and understand how system calls are implemented in the xv6 operating system.

• Project specification available here
• Due date: 11:59 PM, September 27 (Sunday).

Project #1: Hello world, xv6

xv6 is an instructional operating system developed by MIT based on Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie’s Unix version 6 (v6). In this course, we will use xv6-riscv, a version recently ported to a multi-core RISC-V machine. The goal of this project is to set up your development environment on Linux or macOS and familiarize yourself with our project submission server.

• Project specification available here
• Due date: 11:59 PM, March 15 (Tuesday).

xv6 Resources

• xv6 source code: https://github.com/snu-csl/xv6-riscv-snu (our customized version)
• xv6: a simple, Unix-like teaching operating system
• The RISC-V Reader: An Open Architecture Atlas
• RISC-V Instruction Set Manual Volume I: Unprivileged Architecture, Version 20260120
• RISC-V Instruction Set Manual Volume II: Privileged Architecture, Version 20260120