In this lab, you will write the memory management code for your operating system. Memory management has two components. The first component is a physical memory allocator for the kernel, so that the kernel can allocate memory and later free it.

This lab is split into three parts. The first part concentrates on getting familiarized with x86 assembly language, the QEMU x86 emulator, and the PC s power-on bootstrap procedure. The second part examines the boot loader for our course kernel, whic