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 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.
+===== November 16, 2016 =====
+Please note that, as mentioned in the lecture today, in the 4221 project description,
+/cs/course/4221/4221_project_F16.pdf, D. Other Requirements (g):
+"For this project, you should use some version of Linux kernel that is <del>not later than</del> version 2.6."
+should be replaced by:
+"For this project, you should use some version of Linux kernel that is **not earlier than** version 2.6."
+===== November 23, 2016 =====
+ EECS4221/5421 Test 2 will be held on Wednesday, November 30, 2016, 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 23, 2016;
+(b) Material in the slides OSD.4, 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)
+It is possible that Test 2 may include true/false questions, questions that require short answers, questions that require calculations, questions that may require the drawing of diagrams, questions that require writing short programs using pseudo C code similar to that used in the slides, questions that require slightly longer answers, and other possible question formats.
+MAKE SURE YOU READ AND UNDERSTAND ALL THE MATERIAL IN THE SLIDES. PLEASE NOTE THAT ALTHOUGH THE EMPHASIS OF TEST 2 WILL BE ON MATERIAL THAT HAS NOT BEEN TESTED SO FAR, THE MATERIAL IN TEST 2 MAY STILL DEPEND ON KNOWLEDGE OF PREVIOUS MATERIAL.
+PLEASE MAKE SURE THAT YOU ARE USING THE MOST RECENT/UP-TO-DATE VERSION OF THE SLIDES/LECTURE-NOTES TO PREPARE FOR TEST 2, AS THE SLIDES/LECTURE-NOTES MAY HAVE BEEN MODIFIED TO IMPROVE CLARITY OR TO REMOVE ERRORS.
+ALSO NOTE THAT DRAWING THE SAME KIND OF DIAGRAMS AS ILLUSTRATED IN THE SLIDES, WILL BE AN IMPORTANT COMPONENT OF TEST 2.
+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.
+The reason is because doing so will be unfair to other students in the class who do not receive the same information.
+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.
+Thank you for your understanding.
+Please note that the EECS4221 course component marks, when available, can be accessed by logging in to red.cse.yorku.ca, then typing the following command:
+courseInfo 4221 2016-17 F
+===== December 1, 2016 =====
+Please note that, as stated in the EECS 4221/5421 Project requirements
+/cs/course/4221/4221_project_F16.pdf,
+the due date for the  EECS 4221/5421 project,
+and the presentation slides, report for the EECS/5421 topic study 1 and topic study 2,
+and the assignment (if you do the assignment then you do not need to do topic study 2), is: **Monday December 5, 2016, 23:59**.
+**In addition to handing in the hard copies of the above course work,** **you are also required to use the utility "submit" to submit the electronic version** of the above to the directory: /cs/course/4221/submit/project
+(select subdirectory a1,  project,  topic1, or  topic2). (Use the command "man submit" to learn how to submit a file electronically to a submit directory.)
+(Note that this the last day to hand in term work for the Fall 2016 term, http://www.registrar.yorku.ca/enrol/dates/fw15.htm
+so unfortunately, there is no possibility of extending this deadline.)
+- either give it to the secretary in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering Office to be put into my mailbox; or you may slip it under the door of my office Lassonde 3018 (in the latter case, you are responsible for making sure that the thickness of your hard copy allows it to be slipped under my office door).
+===== January 9, 2017 =====
+The 4221/5421 unofficial final grades can be accessed by first logging on to
+red.cse.yorku.ca then typing the following command:
+courseInfo 4221 2016-17 F