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2 of 1; half a nybble of another
Personal blog · depletionmode.comsystemssecurity
2 of 1; half a nybble of another is a personal blog at depletionmode.com about systems and security. Since 2018, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times, most often “Admiring the Zircon OS Part 1: Understanding Minimal Process Creation”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
security, computing, engineering
Most-linked posts?
- Admiring the Zircon OS Part 1: Understanding Minimal Process Creation4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2018-10-04
- Understanding modern UEFI-based platform boot4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2019-08-15
What Hacker News says?
Here's one source: https://depletionmode.com/uefi-boot.html
Comment linking /uefi-boot.html
on “The Linux Boot Process: From Power Button to Kernel”Submitted Understanding modern UEFI-based platform boot as a story · 149 points
HN discussionHardware initialization after power-up is HARD, here a high-level overview: https://depletionmode.com/uefi-boot.html
Comment linking /uefi-boot.html
on “Getting started with bare-metal assembly”Submitted Admiring the Zircon OS Part 1: Understanding Minimal Process Creation as a story · 3 points
HN discussionIf you look at the new kernel, Zircon, you do not have a fork to create a process like Linux and other kernels. Here is a recent article on creating a process. https://depletionmode.com/zircon-process.html One correction on this article I noticed is that the PCI driver is currently in the kernel and not user space.
Comment linking /zircon-process.html
on “A future for fork(2)”Submitted Admiring the Zircon Part 1: Understanding Minimal Process Creation as a story · 1 points
HN discussionA good summary of UEFI booting: https://depletionmode.com/uefi-boot.html
Comment linking /uefi-boot.html
on “Ask HN: Where can I find a primer on how computers boot?”Submitted How Zircon starts processes as a story · 1 points
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