Memory managment

[Alpha]

Hi

First, I'm dutch so my English isn't always right.

I'm a beginner in OS development. I have build my first kernel. This kernel was a simple 'Hello World' kernel and has some support for irq and so on. But now I want to expand it to get a kernell that is more functional than a 'hello world' kernel.

My kernel is build in C and uses GRUB as bootloader, I've build the kernel from this tutorial: http://www.osdever.net/bkerndev/index.php but i have modified it so it isn't exact like the kernel described in the tut.

My main problem now is the psychical memory managment. I have seen a lot of information about how the principal works but i don't know were to start. I know that i have to setup a stack or a bitmap to manage which block of memory is used or not.

But i don't know how to do that.

Can anybody give me some information about setting up a bitmap or a stack?

[Troy Martin]

Welcome!

You may want to check out JamesM's tutorials (http://www.jamesmolloy.co.uk/), since it has a lot of information that you can use.

EDIT: Another great source of information is our wiki (the link is at the top with most forum themes!)

[quok]

There's also quite a few good memory management tutorials over at http://www.osdever.net.

[Creature]

Welcome!

You may want to check out JamesM's tutorials (http://www.jamesmolloy.co.uk/), since it has a lot of information that you can use.

EDIT: Another great source of information is our wiki (the link is at the top with most forum themes!)

Only note that when you're going to use JamesM's tutorials, use the theory and text from the website and the downloadable code, not the code samples on the site as the source code is more recent.

[Alpha]

Thanks for reply.

I have downloaded the source code from JamesM's tutorials.
For me, this code is helpfull because it looks like my code.