Modules List

Here is a list of all modules with brief descriptions:

[detail level 12]

▼NACPI	Abstracts the ACPI standard that provides interfaces for hardware detection, device configuration, and energy management
►NMADS
▼NAllocator
►CBuddy	Buddy Allocator Template
NAPIC	Information about the (extended) Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
NApplicationProcessor	Application Processor Boot
▼NCMOS	CMOS
NNMI
▼NCore	Implements an abstraction for CPU internals
NInterrupt	Exception and Interrupt control
CCR	Access to the Control Register
►CMSR	Access to the Model-Specific Register (MSR)
▼NCPUID	Query information about the processor
NCSU	C StartUp (CSU) required by the compiler and provided by the c standard library
▼NFPU	For the sake of simplicity we call it just FPU, although this is for MMX and SSE as well
▼NGDT	Abstracts the GDT that, primarily, contains descriptors to memory segments
NGuard	Synchronizes the kernel with interrupts using the Prologue/Epilogue Model
▼NHPET	Abstraction of the HPET existing in "modern" computers (since ~2005)
▼NIDT	"Interrupt Descriptor Table (IDT)
▼NIOAPIC	Abstraction of the I/O APIC that is used for management of external interrupts
▼NLAPIC	Abstracts the local APIC (which is integrated into every CPU core)
►NIPI	Inter-Processor Interrupts
►NTimer	Local Timer (for each LAPIC / CPU)
▼Nlinenoise
NMath	Basic math helper functions
▼NMultiboot	Interface for Multiboot
NPIC	The Programmable Interrupt Controller (PIC aka 8259A)
▼NPIT	Abstraction of the historical Programmable Interval Timer (PIT)
NPlugbox	Object-oriented abstraction of an device interrupt table
NPS2Controller	PS/2 Controller
NSystem	General System functions
NTSC	Access to the Timestamp Counter (of the current Core)