From 56eee2a097679cfff004343e950db5e59983f678 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andre Richter Date: Sat, 2 Feb 2019 20:15:12 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Update README.md --- README.md | 23 +++++++++++------------ 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 3371be0e..2a5a6535 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -# Bare Metal Rust Programming on Raspberry Pi 3 +# Bare-metal and Operating System development tutorials in Rust on the Raspberry Pi 3 [![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/rust-embedded/rust-raspi3-tutorial.svg?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.org/rust-embedded/rust-raspi3-tutorial) @@ -11,18 +11,17 @@ readable, concise and safe (at least as safe as it gets on bare-metal hardware). [Rust systems programming language]: https://www.rust-lang.org -The target audience is **hobby OS developers** who are new to this hardware. It -will give you examples on how to do common Operating Systems tasks, like writing -to the serial console, reading keystrokes from it or use various peripherals -like a hardware-backed random number generator. +The target audience is **hobby OS developers** who are new to [ARM's 64 bit ARMv8-A +architecture](https://developer.arm.com/products/architecture/cpu-architecture/a-profile/docs). +It will give you examples on how to do common Operating Systems tasks, like writing +to the serial console, setting up virtual memory and exception handling and using +various peripherals like a hardware-backed random number generator. -However, it is *not* a tutorial on how to write a _complete_ OS. I won't cover -topics like advanced memory management and virtual file systems, or how to -implement multi-tasking. Rather, it comprises a set of micro-tutorials that -introduce different topics one after the other. Maybe in the distant future, we -might introduce a meta tutorial that combines all the resources to a full-fleged -kernel that can multi-task some simple userspace processes, but don't take my -word for it. +However, it is *not* a tutorial on how to write a _complete_ OS from start to finish. +Rather, it comprises a set of micro-tutorials that introduce different topics one +after the other. Maybe in the distant future, a meta tutorial that +combines all the resources to a full-fleged kernel that can multi-task some simple +userspace processes is possible, but don't take my word for it. ## Environment