X-Git-Url: https://pintos-os.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=blobdiff_plain;f=doc%2Fintro.texi;h=d95842ee274f1e84d75aabe65226dc0c906258d4;hb=3aed0d2d4a90ee50db206d7442c4a87207f59d4d;hp=4a517f20a649efb27ab2c3ea1ae4e2736d805036;hpb=f415a37905c57f61b444806bf84f5405184452aa;p=pintos-anon diff --git a/doc/intro.texi b/doc/intro.texi index 4a517f2..d95842e 100644 --- a/doc/intro.texi +++ b/doc/intro.texi @@ -248,8 +248,8 @@ must precede the commands passed to the Pintos kernel and be separated from them by @option{--}, so that the whole command looks like @code{pintos @var{option}@dots{} -- @var{argument}@dots{}}. Invoke @code{pintos} without any arguments to see a list of available options. -Options can select a simulator to use: the default is Bochs, but on the -Linux machines @option{--qemu} selects qemu. You can run the simulator +Options can select a simulator to use: the default is Bochs, but +@option{--qemu} selects qemu. You can run the simulator with a debugger (@pxref{GDB}). You can set the amount of memory to give the VM. Finally, you can select how you want VM output to be displayed: use @option{-v} to turn off the VGA display, @option{-t} to use your @@ -307,7 +307,7 @@ timings, in which a one-second delay should take approximately one second of real time. Simulation in real-time mode is not reproducible, and options @option{-j} and @option{-r} are mutually exclusive. -On the Linux machines only, the qemu simulator is available as an +The qemu simulator is available as an alternative to Bochs (use @option{--qemu} when invoking @command{pintos}). The qemu simulator is much faster than Bochs, but it only supports real-time simulation and does not have a reproducible @@ -542,7 +542,7 @@ Nachos by current and former CS 140 teaching assistants at Stanford University, including at least Yu Ping, Greg Hutchins, Kelly Shaw, Paul Twohey, Sameer Qureshi, and John Rector. -Example code for condition variables (@pxref{Condition Variables}) is +Example code for monitors (@pxref{Monitors}) is from classroom slides originally by Dawson Engler and updated by Mendel Rosenblum.