Article 2: x86 memory model & interrupts

Source code

The article was published in linux inside issue 2 (May-June 2011).

References:

• Andrew S. Tanenbaum and Albert S. Woodhull, Operating Systems: Design and Implementation. Prentice Hall, 2nd ed., 1996.
• Intel corporation, Intel 64 and IA-32 Architectures Software Developer's Manual, Volume 3A: System Programming Guide, Part 1.
• Intel corporation, 8259A Programmable Interrupt Controller.