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BSD 2-Clause "Simplified" License 
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Description
This is a 64 bit OS made for fun and learning
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Rock
rockOS is a simple kernel that strives to be unix-like, we use mlibc and have various pieces of unix software ported such as bash and the gnu coreutils
Features
- PMM/VMM (4/5 level paging)
- XAPIC/X2APIC
- IDT/GDT/TSS
- EXT2
- VFS
- RAMFS
- DEVFS
- SMP
- PCI
- AHCI
- NVME
- XHCI (Work in progress)
- intel HD audio
- HPET
- Preemptive multicore scheduler
- Slab allocator
Goals
- Port various pieces of software like gcc, python, xwayland, etc
- Create a network stack with TCP, ARP, UDP, DHCP, ICMP, etc
Build Instructions
Here are some programs you will need to build rock: -
nasm-
make-
qemu-
tar-
sed-
wget-
git-
xbstrap
Once you have those run the script
build_tools.shin
/tools
To compile and run rock, there are three default build targets available: -
make qemu- run with regular qemu (live serial debugger) -
make info- run with the qemu console -
make debug- run with the qemu interrupt monitor
Contributing
Contributors are very welcome, just make sure to use the same code style as me :^)