Depuração do processo de inicialização de um sistema operacional

Abstract

It is becoming increasingly common to find people who develop computer programs. This is due to several factors. Among them, are the facilities provided by high level programming languages and, mainly, by modern operating systems and programming supporting tools. The development of these systems, however, is quite complex due to the high degree of knowledge required and the lack of supporting tools for this task. In this context, this work comes out intended to assist in the development of operating systems, using a debugging tool to an essential stage for any operating system: the initialization phase. The tool was developed using the Java language and RSP, a communicating protocol used by the GDB debugger, present in most Linux distributions, for exchanging messages with remote processes.