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:trollface: Hobby x86 unix-like kernel. Curiously under development to answer "How to write an OS".

License: Other

Makefile 3.79% Assembly 13.34% C 82.58% C++ 0.29%

tantra's Introduction

Tantra

 \_\_    _/_/       Tantra
     \__/           /तंत्र/ n. System (sanskrit)
     (o0)\________  Hobby unix-like x86 kernel
     (#_)\ tantra )\
         ||------w |
         ||       ||

Building

Available build profiles:

make all
make iso
make run
make qemu

Debugging

Use bochs to step into instructions and see registers in action:

make run

Roadmap

Things that are yet to be implemented:

Fairly useful libc
Implement syscalls and errnos (s/w based interrupts)
Refactor and improve memory management and heap allocation (sbrk, malloc, free etc)
Improving x86 paging and frame mapping/allocation
Implement Virtual File System and ext2/custom-fs implementation
Fix build system to move away from iso to a real HDD
Init ramdisk
Implement multitasking, COW, processes (fork etc)
Implement scheduler for user processes
Usermode apps: init, shell, fs related (mkdir, ls etc), cat, echo, etc.
Support multiple cpus/core, SMP
VGA graphics
Networking