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This second edition is not only a thorough update of the first edition, it is also a marriage of the best-known RISC architecture--MIPS--with the best-known open-source OS--Linux. The first part of the book begins with MIPS design principles and then describes the MIPS instruction set and programmer...

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Main Author: Sweetman, Dominic
Other title:See MIPS run Linux
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: San Francisco, Calif. : Morgan Kaufmann Publishers/Elsevier, ©2007.
Edition:2nd ed.
Subjects:
MIPS (Computer architecture)
RISC microprocessors.
Embedded computer systems > Programming.
Embedded computer systems > Programming
RISC microprocessors
Academic theses
Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1: RISCs and MIPS
  • Chapter 2: MIPS Architecture
  • Chapter 3: Coprocessor 0: MIPS Processor Control
  • Chapter 4: How Caches work on MIPS
  • Chapter 5: Exceptions, Interrupts, and Initialization
  • Chapter 6: Low-level Memory Management and the TLB
  • Chapter 7: Floating-Point Support
  • Chapter 8: Complete Guide to the MIPS Instruction Set
  • Chapter 9: Reading MIPS Assembler Language
  • Chapter 10: Porting Software to MIPS
  • Chapter 11: MIPS Software Standards (ABIs)
  • Chapter 12: Debugging MIPS
  • debug and profiling features
  • Chapter 13: GNU/Linux from Eight Miles High
  • Chapter 14: How hardware and software work together
  • Chapter 15: MIPS-specific issues in the Linux kernel
  • Chapter 16: Linux Application Code, PIC and Libraries
  • Appendix A: MIPS Multithreading
  • Appendix B: Other Optional extensions to the MIPS instruction set
  • MIPS Glossary.

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