old-DasOS/documentation/supervm-system.md

SuperVM System Documentation

This document contains descriptions of the SuperVM host system which utilized a SPU Mark I to execute code.

Executable Program Format EXP

SuperVM uses a simple format for storing its executables.

The format is an archive which stores key-value-pairs for configuration and sections containing code or data.

Sections

A section can be either code or data and has a defined memory position and length.

System Memory

SuperVM provides access to up to 4 GBs of RAM with the x86 paging concept:

The memory is organized in page tables and a page directories. The directory contains pointers to a page table which then contains the pointers to 4096 byte large pages.