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https://github.com/thepowersgang/rust_os

An OS kernel written in rust. Non POSIX
https://github.com/thepowersgang/rust_os

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An OS kernel written in rust. Non POSIX

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"Tifflin" Experimental Kernel (and eventually Operating System)
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This is an experiment in writing an OS Kernel in rust (http://rust-lang.org).

Mostly the architecture is being designed as I go along, but it will be written to be architecture independent (the current version is x86\_64/amd64).

## Design Features
- Runtime module initialisation with dependencies
- Clear user-kernel separation of duties
- Userland owns the ELF loader, kernel uses a custom format for init.
- Object-based syscall API
- Kernel-provided window manager (yes, I know old windows did this)

## Progress
- Filesystems
- ISO9660
- FAT12/16/32
- Storage
- (P)ATA
- SATA (AHCI)
- ATAPI CDROM
- VirtIO Block
- Input
- PS2 Keyboard/Mouse
- Graphics
- Multiboot only
- GUI Apps
- Login (Credentials are root/password)
- "GUI Shell" (with background!)
- Text Terminal app (with basic set of commands)
- Filesystem viewer
- Architectures
- amd64 (aka x86\_64) - Boots to limit of implementation
- armv7 - Loads userland then crashes

## Build Dependencies
- `nasm`
- GNU Binutils (cross-compiled)
- GCC (for ACPICA)
- `pxelinux`
- `libguestfs-tools` (for creating disk images)