Learn to Program with Assembly: Foundational Learning for New Programmers by Jonathan Bartlett
- It has AT&T Syntax (used by Linux Kernel) and introduces AMD64 (64-Bit Assembly).
I have created this repository to learn assembly quickly in context of systems programming to get the foundational skills to build a toy hypervisor in near future.
asm-basics/contains basic byte-sized programs to learn 64-bit assembly.systems-programming/contains byte-sized programs to learn systems programming using AMD manual.
- Complete Dynamic Linking Chapter
- Practice adapting Programming Language features like Refcounting, OOPs, Garbage Collection, etc. from Part III.
- Practice context saving and restoration -- saving all general-purpose registers on the stack, modifying their contents and restoring their values
- Create a scheduler in assembly that saves the context (registers, stack pointer, etc.) of the currently running routine and switches to the other.
- Create a simple page table load the address into the page table base register
- Implement a basic interrupt handler in assembly
- Build a minimal kernel service: write an assembly routine that acts as a system call handler (using a software interrupt or exception) to, say, print a string. Then, from user mode (or simulated user code), invoke this system call to verify the interface works.
- Play with control registers
- Interrupt, Exceptions and System calls
- Switching tasks
- Early boot and initialisations
- Atomics and Locks
- CPU initialisation and feature detection
- Memory paging and MMU
- Trampoline
- VDSO ??