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 ALSO NOTE THAT DRAWING THE SAME KIND OF DIAGRAMS AS ILLUSTRATED IN THE SLIDES, WILL BE AN IMPORTANT COMPONENT OF TEST 2.
+===== October 22, 2015 =====
+EECS4221 Test 1 will be held on Wednesday, October 28, 2015 19:00-21:00.
+Test 1 will include:
+a) Material covered in the lectures from the beginning of the term up to and including the lecture on Wednesday October 21;
+b) Material in the files OSD.1.pdf, OSD.1.1.pdf, OSD.2.pdf, OSD.3.pdf, OSD.4.pdf, in the course directory;
+c) Material in Chapter 10, “File-System Interface” and Chapter 11, “File-System Implementation” of the book “Operating System Concepts”, 8th Ed; (Chapter 11, “File-System Interface” and Chapter 12, “File-System Implementation” of the book “Operating System Concepts”, 9th Ed);
+d) Material in Chapter 12 “The Virtual Filesystem” of the book “Understanding the Linux Kernel”, 3rd Edition related to the material in the slides listed in item b above.
+(Please make sure that you have the most up-to-date version of the slides in the above mentioned files, as some of the slides may have been updated since you last downloaded them.)
+It is possible that Test 1 may include true/false questions, questions that require short answers, questions that may require the drawing of diagrams, questions that require slightly longer answers, and other possible question formats.
+MAKE SURE YOU READ AND UNDERSTAND ALL THE MATERIAL IN THE SLIDES.
+ALSO NOTE THAT DRAWING THE SAME KIND OF DIAGRAMS AS ILLUSTRATED IN THE SLIDES, WILL BE AN IMPORTANT COMPONENT OF TEST 1. For example, if you are given a diagram similar to that on slide 9 of OSD4.pdf, “Example of a Small File System Tree in Unix”, then you should be able to draw the corresponding diagram on slide 10, “Internal Structure of Small File system Tree in Unix”, as well as the corresponding diagram on slide 24, “In Memory VFS Objects and On Disk Objects”.
+Also please note that, unfortunately, I am unable to provide individual answers to individual student questions regarding what kind of questions may be included, or not included, in the tests, beyond what I had said during the lectures and what has been posted on the course website above.
-===== November 17, 2014 =====
+The reason is because doing so will be unfair to other students in the class who do not receive the same information.
-Please note that EECS4221 Test 2 will be held on Wednesday December 3, 2014, 19:00, (not November 26).
+For all questions regarding tests, please ask me during the lectures so that everyone in the class would have equal opportunity to know my answers to any questions regarding any test.
- Test 2 will include:
+Thank you for your understanding.
-(a) Material covered in the lectures, with emphasis on material covered in the lectures since Test 1 and up to and including the lecture on Wednesday November 26;
+===== October 23, 2015 =====
-(b) Material in the slides OSD.4, OSD.4.1.pdf, OSD.5.pdf, OSD.6.pdf in the course directory;
+The BeagleBone Black boards can be borrowed from the lab monitors now.
+Unfortunately, the department policy dictates that boards cannot be borrowed overnight.
+Students have until 10:00 pm each week day and 9 am to 10 pm on Saturdays and Sundays to use the board.
+===== October 27, 2015 =====
+IMPORTANT:
+THE LOCATION FOR EECS 4221 TEST 1 ON WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 28 19:00-22:00 HAS BEEN CHANGED TO:
+HNE B17
+(Health, Nursing & Environmental Studies HNE is South of Ross Building, between Ross Building and Osgoode Hall Law School.)
+===== November 5, 2015 =====
+Because of the limited amount of time available, students who choose to do a
+Second Topic Study do not need to present the Second Topic Study in class.
+Note that the Topic Study Reports (which are separate from the PowerPoint Presentations) and the PowerPoint Slides for the Topic Study presentation for both Topic Study 1 and Topic Study 2 can be handed in on the last day to hand in term work, that is, Monday December 7.
+Also please note that the Test 1 marks can be accessed by logging in to red.cse.yorku.ca, then typing the following command:
+courseInfo 4221 2015-16 F
+===== November 9, 2015 =====
+Eight additional topics have been added to the list of topics to choose from
+for the EECS 4221 Topic Study 2 in /cs/course/4221/4221_topics
+===== November 29, 2015 =====
+Please note that EECS4221/5421 Test 2 will be held on Wednesday December 2, 2015, 19:00.
+Test 2 will include:
+(a) Material covered in the lectures, with emphasis on material covered in the lectures since Test 1 and up to and including the lecture on Wednesday November 25;
+(b) Material in the slides OSD.4.1.pdf, OSD.5.pdf, OSD.6.pdf in the course directory;
 (Although there are no books that cover all the material in the slides in OSD.5, however, reading Chapter 5, “Kernel Synchronization”, of the book, “Understanding the Linux Kernel”, 3rd Edition, may help understand some of the material on synchronization in the slides in OSD.5.pdf. Reading Chapter 1 to Chapter 3 of the book “MicroC/OS-II The Real-Time Kernel”, 2nd Edition, may help understand some of the material on μC/OS-II in the slides in OSD.6.pdf. Both books have been put on reserve for 2-hour loans at Steacie Library)
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 ALSO NOTE THAT DRAWING THE SAME KIND OF DIAGRAMS AS ILLUSTRATED IN THE SLIDES, WILL BE AN IMPORTANT COMPONENT OF TEST 2.
-Please note that, as announced in class, for the assignment, topic studies and the project, both hard copies and electronic copies of the PowerPoint slides and reports must be submitted on or before Friday December 5, 24:00 midnight. Please note that December 5, 2014, is the last day to hand in term work, according to York University regulations:
+IMPORTANT:
+THE LOCATION FOR EECS 4221/5421 TEST 2 ON WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 2 19:00-22:00 IS:
+HNE B17
+(HNE B17 is the same location that was used for EECS 4221/5421 Test 1.
+Health, Nursing & Environmental Studies HNE is South of Ross Building, between Ross Building and Osgoode Hall Law School.)
+Please note that, as announced in class, for the assignment, topic studies and the project, both hard copies and electronic copies of the PowerPoint slides and reports must be submitted on or before Monday December 7, 23:59. Please note that December 7, 2015, is the last day to hand in term work, according to York University regulations.
+===== December 4, 2015 =====
+Currently there exist the following 4221/5421 submit directories:
+/cs/course/4221/submit/a1
+/cs/course/4221/submit/topic
+/cs/course/4221/submit/topic2
+/cs/course/4221/submit/project
+Please use the command "man submit" to learn how to
+submit each of your work to one of the submit directories
+listed above.
-http://www.registrar.yorku.ca/enrol/dates/fw14.htm
+===== January 8, 2016 =====
-===== January 7, 2015 =====
+Please note that the unofficial final grade for EECS 4221 Fall 2015 can be accessed by logging in to red.cse.yorku.ca, then typing the following command:
-The unofficial final grades for EECS4221 Winter 2014 can be accessed by first logging on to red.cse.yorku.ca, then using the following command:
+courseInfo 4221 2015-16 F
-courseInfo 4221 2014-15 F