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xv6 is a re-implementation of Dennis Ritchie's and Ken Thompson's Unix
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Version 6 (v6). xv6 loosely follows the structure and style of v6,
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but is implemented for a modern x86-based multiprocessor using ANSI C.
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
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xv6 is inspired by John Lions's Commentary on UNIX 6th Edition (Peer
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to Peer Communications; ISBN: 1-57398-013-7; 1st edition (June 14,
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2000)). See also http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.828/2016/xv6.html, which
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provides pointers to on-line resources for v6.
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xv6 borrows code from the following sources:
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JOS (asm.h, elf.h, mmu.h, bootasm.S, ide.c, console.c, and others)
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Plan 9 (entryother.S, mp.h, mp.c, lapic.c)
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FreeBSD (ioapic.c)
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NetBSD (console.c)
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The following people have made contributions: Russ Cox (context switching,
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locking), Cliff Frey (MP), Xiao Yu (MP), Nickolai Zeldovich, and Austin
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Clements.
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We are also grateful for the bug reports and patches contributed by Silas
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Boyd-Wickizer, Anton Burtsev, Cody Cutler, Mike CAT, Tej Chajed, Nelson Elhage,
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Saar Ettinger, Alice Ferrazzi, Nathaniel Filardo, Peter Froehlich, Yakir Goaron,
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Shivam Handa, Bryan Henry, Jim Huang, Alexander Kapshuk, Anders Kaseorg,
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kehao95, Wolfgang Keller, Eddie Kohler, Austin Liew, Imbar Marinescu, Yandong
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Mao, Hitoshi Mitake, Carmi Merimovich, Joel Nider, Greg Price, Ayan Shafqat,
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Eldar Sehayek, Yongming Shen, Cam Tenny, Rafael Ubal, Warren Toomey, Stephen Tu,
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Pablo Ventura, Xi Wang, Keiichi Watanabe, Nicolas Wolovick, Grant Wu, Jindong
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Zhang, Icenowy Zheng, and Zou Chang Wei.
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The code in the files that constitute xv6 is
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Copyright 2006-2016 Frans Kaashoek, Robert Morris, and Russ Cox.
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ERROR REPORTS
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Please send errors and suggestions to Frans Kaashoek and Robert Morris
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(kaashoek,rtm@mit.edu). The main purpose of xv6 is as a teaching
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operating system for MIT's 6.828, so we are more interested in
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simplifications and clarifications than new features.
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BUILDING AND RUNNING XV6
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To build xv6 on an x86 ELF machine (like Linux or FreeBSD), run
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"make". On non-x86 or non-ELF machines (like OS X, even on x86), you
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will need to install a cross-compiler gcc suite capable of producing
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x86 ELF binaries. See http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.828/2016/tools.html.
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Then run "make TOOLPREFIX=i386-jos-elf-". Now install the QEMU PC
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simulator and run "make qemu".
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