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Hey everyone,

The 18th installment has been finalized and released. It covers:

virtual memory management;
paging;
MMU, TLB, PAE, PSE;
virtual addresses and the VAS;
developing a VMM

I wanted to cover paging and virtual memory concepts in a different and easy to understand way while providing as much detail as possible. I hope I did okay. What do you think? If there is any incorrect information, questions or problems with the VMM design, or layout in general, please let me know. Any and all feedback is requested. Is there anything that you feel is missing that I should add?

OSDev Series Chapter 18: Virtual Memory Management
OSDev Series Base Site

Also, I am aware of the exception handlers bug of incorrectly obtaining parameters pushed by the processor. I will upload a permanent fix for it once it is completed.

Thanks for any feedback

Nifty tutorial and series, can't wait until you write a keyboard/shell tutorial (will attempt to compile and run the code then, at current moment I don't have either the stones or the patience to try it! )

Keyboard tutorials already practically finished (I started it a few weeks ago) so it should be up fairly soon. Its a little on the complex side at the moment though.

Thanks for your compliments

It seems a few links are missing or botched. There's nowhere from the Ch18 tut that I can see to return to the main tut page, and when I go one up, the link to the main tut page is broken.


JAL

It seems a few links are missing or botched. There's nowhere from the Ch18 tut that I can see to return to the main tut page, and when I go one up, the link to the main tut page is broken.

I never intended for each tutorial to provide a way to return to the main page (Although it is a nice idea ) and when you go one up (to its parent directory) it doesnt go to the main series page because of what the main series page is named (OSDevIndex.html).

I suppose if I create a separate dir for the series and redirect all current tutorials to the new dir it would fix the second link without causing much problems as I can name OSDevIndex.html appropriately. Im going to have to think about that one...

Thanks for taking a look

Maybe, while you're at it, you'd also like to update the copyright notice at the bottom of the page to the year 2009.