{"title":"A firmware monitor to support vertical migration decisions in the UNIX operating system","authors":"B. Holtkamp, H. Kaestner","doi":"10.1145/1014194.800945","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"From a methodological point of view vertical migration involves the following four steps: identification of migration objects, prediction of expected system improvements, implementation, and verification of the results. In this paper a firmware monitor is presented as a support tool for the first and fourth step.\n The application environment for this monitor is a PDP-11/60 with writable control store running the UNIX operating system. Based upon a UNIX system model the requirements for the monitor are defined in terms of objects and their parameters to be measured. Afterwards the hierarchical structure and the components of the firmware monitor are presented. Furthermore the monitor handling and its influence on the operating system are discussed.","PeriodicalId":134922,"journal":{"name":"MICRO 15","volume":"99 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1982-10-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"8","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"MICRO 15","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1014194.800945","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
From a methodological point of view vertical migration involves the following four steps: identification of migration objects, prediction of expected system improvements, implementation, and verification of the results. In this paper a firmware monitor is presented as a support tool for the first and fourth step.
The application environment for this monitor is a PDP-11/60 with writable control store running the UNIX operating system. Based upon a UNIX system model the requirements for the monitor are defined in terms of objects and their parameters to be measured. Afterwards the hierarchical structure and the components of the firmware monitor are presented. Furthermore the monitor handling and its influence on the operating system are discussed.