Benjamin David Lunt

Have you ever wondered how to use the USB hardware to send and receive data from an attached device? Wondered how to detect and initialize the controller, retrieve the device's descriptors, configure the device, and then communicate with it to send or retrieve its data? This book explains the ins and outs of the four major controllers, starting with the UHCI, OHCI, EHCI, and then the new Super Speed xHCI Controller. It explains in detail how to communicate with the various devices such as HID mice and keyboards, mass storage devices, including UASP devices, printers, and other USB devices.If you are interested in working with bare hardware to communicate with the USB, with no operating system to get in the way, you don't need to look any further.This book does not need to be on the shelf every USB enthusiast, it needs to be right on the desk.Third Edition -- 20180420

This book is Volume 6 of the series, FYSOS: Operating System Design, and will show the reader how to create a Graphical User Interface, with all the bells and whistles that go along with it. It will show how to draw to the video screen, create windows and objects such as, buttons, menus, bitmaps, progress bars, and other objects.It will show how to send event messages so that other windows can communicate with the root object, suchas when a button is pressed, a text edit is changed, or any other change in the GUI system.All of this is done with minimal outside help, such as operating system calls, though a few calls to the BIOS are needed to retrieve the video hardware information. The reader will learn how to communicate with the video directly, reading and writing pixels to the screen to achieve these tasks.The companion CD-ROM contains complete source code of each example within the book, showing how to accomplish these tasks, and is heavily commented. The source code is a must to be able to follow along with the book, and is freely available once proof of book purchase is provided.This book, and its companion series of books, does not expect you to build the next great wonder of the computer world. It simply will help you with your interest in controlling the computer's hardware, from the point the BIOS releases execution to your boot code to the point of a fully working Graphical User Interface.It is not required that you know much about operating system design, though a good knowledge of C Programming Language and a moderate knowledge of an Intel(R)/AMD(R) x86 computer's hardware is expected to use this book.

This book is Volume 4 of the series, FYSOS: Operating System Design, and will show the reader how to detect, initialize, and communicate with the Serial and Parallel Ports, the PS2 ports, and the mice and keyboards that may be attached to them, as well as the Sound Blaster Audio device. This book does not, however, discuss input devices attached via a USB port. This type of device is described in Volume 8 of this series, "FYSOS: The Universal Serial Bus".All of this is done without any outside help, such as operating system calls or the help of the BIOS. The reader will learn how to communicate with the hardware directly, reading and writing to the system bus to achieve these tasks.The companion CD-ROM contains complete source code of each example within the book, showing how to accomplish these tasks.This book, and its companion series of books, does not expect you to build the next great wonder of the computer world. It simply will help you with your interest in controlling the computer's hardware, from the point the BIOS releases execution to your boot code to the point of a fully working Graphical User Interface.It is not required that you know much about operating system design, though a good knowledge of C Programming Language and a moderate knowledge of an Intel(R)/AMD(R) x86 computer's hardware is expected to use this book.

Stories of a scout, growing up in a Mormon troop, from when he was just turning twelve to getting his Eagle at the age of sixteen. A story of a favorite campout, where the hike was almost more than he could handle, and a 100-foot wall of water sweeping him off his feet. Fishing stories that you won't believe. Stories of how a scout troop turned a tall skinny kid in to a young man ready for whatever life had in store for him.These are short stories told by a grown man of his memories of being a young scout, learning the rules and ways of life. Going to Scout Camps, learning how to cook over an open fire. Stories that scared him silly, stories that made him laugh, stories that made him cry.Stories where he learned how to be trustworthy of his actions, loyal to his fellow scouts, helpful to others, and a good friend. He learned to be courteous, kind, obedient of his leaders, cheerful as activities were near, and thrifty with the few dollars he might have had. He was sometimes brave and clean, though usually more brave than clean, and learned to be reverent when that time came upon him.

This book is Volume 3 of the series, FYSOS: Operating System Design, and will show the reader how to detect, initialize, and communicate with three of the most common media hardware devices, the Floppy Disk Controller, the IDE Hard Disk Controller, and the SATA (AHCI) Hard Disk Controller. The reader will learn how to detect the controller, what type of controller it is, initialize it to default values, detect attached devices, and then communicate with those devices, such as reading and writing to the attached media.All of this is done without any outside help, such as operating system calls or the help of the BIOS. The reader will learn how to communicate with the hardware directly, reading and writing to the system bus to achieve these tasks.The companion CD-ROM contains complete source code of each example within the book, showing how to accomplish these tasks.This book, and its companion series of books, does not expect you to build the next great wonder of the computer world. It simply will help you with your interest in controlling the computer's hardware, from the point the BIOS releases execution to your boot code to the point of a fully working Graphical User Interface.It is not required that you know much about operating system design, though a good knowledge of C Programming Language and a moderate knowledge of an Intel(R)/AMD(R) x86 computer's hardware is expected to use this book.

This book is Volume 2 of the series, FYSOS: Operating System Design, and will describe the process needed to connect a file system to your kernel. It explains the steps to create a file system independent link between a file system residing on the media to your kernel code. Once you have done this, a simple call to fopen("C: \filename.txt", OPEN) is all you need to open a file.It then goes into detail, giving examples of what a file system should be, how to create your own, and what to include in that file system. It also explains the process of a simple journaling file system.Part 2 of this book details four file systems, two commonly used and well known, and two hobby file systems.The companion CD-ROM contains source code to utilities to check your work, display the contents of a file system, dump a file system, and repair a file system.This book, and its continued series of books, does not expect you to build the next great wonder of the computer world. It simply will help you with your interest in controlling the computer's hardware, from the point the BIOS releases execution to your boot code to the point of a fully working Graphical User Interface.It is not required that you know much about operating system design to use this book and no specific hardware or software is required.

This book is Volume 1 of the series, FYSOS: Operating System Design, and will take the reader from the point the computer boots up, through the boot code, through the file system loader, and then to the kernel. It explains in detail, each step of what it takes to create a minimum working, multi-threading operating system. Includes chapters on how to retrieve information from the BIOS, find partitions on the media, move to 32-bit protected mode, creating a memory manager, a task scheduler, and other necessities of operating system design. The available CD-ROM (upon request) contains complete source code of this minimal operating system, and many utilities for use in your development. This book also includes suggestions, examples, and other source code to help you build your operating system. This book, and its continued series of books, does not expect you to build the next great wonder of the computer world. It simply will help you with your interest in controlling the computer's hardware, from the point the BIOS releases execution to your boot code to the point of a fully working Graphical User Interface. It is not required that you know much about operating system design, though a strong knowledge of x86 Assembly Language programming and a moderate knowledge of an Intel(R)/AMD(R) x86 computer's hardware is expected to use this book.