Usually, I do not just forward people to other blogs. But the other day, I published an interesting article on my company’s* tech blog about testing virtualization stacks using mini operating systems. Here’s the excerpt: Testing and debugging erroneous behavior by a guest under a virtualization stack is hard and Read more…
Today, I’d like to introduce you to PhipsBoot. 🎉 I started working on it in September 2023 or so, but polished it just recently. A lot of knowledge from my previous blog post about x86 Kernel Development & Relocatable Binaries went into this project. PhipsBoot is a relocatable x86_64 bootloader Read more…
This post is roughly a summary of the obscure knowledge I learned about toolchains and relocatable code in the last couple of years by studying the code of the microkernels NOVA and Hedron, my professional hands-on experience with kernel development, and several learning projects. I present some of the “hard Read more…
I just want to drop a short notice that I created a small CLI utility that I think is helpful. paging-calculator helps you to calculate the indices for a given virtual address that are used for the physical address lookup at different page table levels. Paging is a mechanism that Read more…