NYCU, Operating System Capstone, Spring 2021

This course aims to introduce the design and implementation of operating system kernels. You’ll learn both concept and implementation from a series of labs.

This course uses Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+ (rpi3 for short) as the hardware platform. Students can get their hands dirty on a Real Machine instead of an emulator.

Labs

There are 8 + 1 labs in this course. You’ll learn how to design a kernel by implementing it yourself.

There are 2 types of labels in each lab.

required	You’re required to implement it by the description, they take up major of your scores.
elective	You can implement some of them to get a bonus.

There is no limitation on which programming language you should use for the labs. However, there are a lot of things which are language dependent and even compiler dependent. You need to manage them yourself.

You can check to last year’s course website and submission repository to see what you might need to do during this semester. Yet, the requirements and descriptions may differ this semester.

Grading Policy

It’s allowed and recommended to check others code, but you still need to write it on your own instead of copy/paste.

TAs validate plagiarism by asking the detail of your implementation. If you can’t elaborate your code clearly, you only get 70% of the score.

Your code may work on an emulator even it’s wrong. Hence, you get 90% of the score if your code works on QEMU but not on real rpi3.

For late hand in, the penalty is 1% per week.

Disclaimer

We’re not kernel developers or experienced embedded system developers. It’s common we made mistakes in the description. If you find any of them, send an issue or PR to this github repo.

Note

This documentation is not self-contained, you can get more information from external references.