You should expect to get hands-on familiarity with

| Illumos on x86  |  Linux on x86  |   ELF format  
                                   |
   processes and kernels' process  | 
        data structrues            | load/run time
                                   | 
   virtual memory space layouts,   | dynamic loading/ 
   memory management & allocators  |   linking of
                                   |    libraries
    design of kernel interfaces    | 
                                   |  linking time
    OS and HW debugging support    |  
                                   |  symbol tables 
      DTrace      |    Kprobes     |  
                  |   SysTrace     |
                  |                |  
        DDK       |     LKMs       |


Your project should show mastery of one or more of these topics, and
include some demonstrably working code that implements or instruments
the corresponding kernel mechanism or feature. You can also pick a
different topic, such as synchronization or scheduling.

Start thinking about your project early, decide on your topic by the
middle of the term, and presend your project to me by the end of the
finals week.

You can work on your projects alone or with a partner when the scope
of effort needed warrants that (in other words, teams will be expected
to pick and present a more complex project).