ChaOS is an SMP-aware kernel that we are doing as a part of our studies at Epitech.

Build Dependencies

• make
• gcc or clang (latest version, ideally)
• grub-mkrescue and libisoburn (usually packed with other binaries as grub)
• mtools
• dialogs
• qemu (cpu emulator) optional

If you are using apt-get as your package manager (Debian, Ubuntu etc.), you can use this command to install all dependencies:

apt-get install qemu grub-pc-bin xorriso mtools

If you are using pacman as your package manager (ArchLinux, Manjaro etc.), you can use this command:

pacman -Syu dialog qemu grub libisoburn mtools

If you are using portage as your package manager (Gentoo), you can use this command instead:

emerge --ask sys-boot/libisoburn sys-fs/dosfstools sys-fs/mtools

If you are using an other package manager, well... Good luck! :p

Building an iso

First, tune as you wish the kernel's configuration with

make config

Then, build the kernel:

make kernel

To build a complete iso with grub installed (suitable for USB flash drives or virtual machines), run

make iso

Running with QEMU

If you want to run ChaOS through QEMU even if it's boring & useless right now, run

make run

Roadmap

• Kernel options
• Kernel architecture
• Kernel placed in high-addresses
• Boot
  • Multiboot
  • Paging setup
  • GDT setup
  • IDT setup
  • TSS setup
  • SMP setup
• Basic drivers
  • VGA
  • Serial
  • PS/2 Keyboard
• Memory
  • Physical Memory Management
  • Virtual Memory Management (mmap(), munmap() etc.)
  • Virtual segments of memory
  • Kernel heap (kalloc(), kfree(), krealloc())
• ELF Program execution (exec())
• Syscall interface and userspace (ring 3)
• Multi process / threads
  • Scheduling
  • User Threads
  • Kernel threads
  • Processes (mix of clone(), exec() and exit())
• Initrd loading, reading and writing
• Device abstraction
• Filesystem
  • Directory listing (opendir(), readdir(), closedir())
  • Creating and removing files/directories (mkfile(), mkdir(), remove())
  • File basic IO operations (open(), read(), write(), close())
  • File advanced IO operations (pipe(), dup())
  • File informations (stat())
• User space programs (init, tty, shell, basic binaries such as echo, ls, rm, mkdir etc.)
• Virtual filesystems (/proc, /dev)

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