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Use StringIO to simplify string_iterator here. Altered the up-front
documentation.

Signed-off-by: Ewan Mellor <ewan@xensource.com>
author emellor@leeni.uk.xensource.com
date Mon Nov 28 12:21:17 2005 +0000 (2005-11-28)
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1 Minimal OS
2 ----------
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4 This shows some of the stuff that any guest OS will have to set up.
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6 This includes:
7
8 * installing a virtual exception table
9 * handling virtual exceptions
10 * handling asynchronous events
11 * enabling/disabling async events
12 * parsing start_info struct at start-of-day
13 * registering virtual interrupt handlers (for timer interrupts)
14 * a simple page and memory allocator
15 * minimal libc support
16
17 Stuff it doesn't show:
18
19 * modifying page tables
20 * network code
21 * block-device code
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23
24 - to build it just type make.
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26 - to start it do the following in domain0 (assuming xend is running)
27 # xm create domain_config
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29 this starts the kernel and prints out a bunch of stuff and then every
30 1000 timer interrupts the system time.