By
Dominic Sweetman, MIPS Technologies
Description
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 programmers’ resources. It uses the MIPS32 standard as a baseline (the 1st edition used the R3000) from which to compare all
other versions of the architecture and assumes that MIPS64 is the main option. The second part is a significant change from the first
edition. It provides concrete examples of operating system low level code, by using Linux as the example operating system. It describes
how Linux is built on the foundations the MIPS hardware provides and summarizes the Linux application environment, describing the libraries,
kernel device-drivers and CPU-specific code. It then digs deep into application code and library support, protection and memory management,
interrupts in the Linux kernel and multiprocessor Linux.
Sweetman has revised his best-selling MIPS bible for MIPS programmers, embedded
systems designers, developers and programmers, who need an in-depth understanding of the MIPS architecture and specific guidance for
writing software for MIPS-based systems, which are increasingly Linux-based.
Audience:
Embedded systems designers and programmers
