nobloat-os

Goal

• Learn operating system development
• Avoid C and evaluate how good Zig is suited for this task
• Favor simplicity over performance
• Run on x86_64 and aarch64
• Avoid legacy, assume we are in year 2020
• Avoid dependencies

Long term goals

• Widget Toolkit
• Desktop UI
• Sound

Dependencies

• make
• Optionally: zig, if no zig is found, make will download it.
• Optionally: qemu-system-x86_64 or qemu-system-aarch64 to run the OS

Build

• make

Run

• make qemu_x86_64
• make qemu_aarch64

WSL2 with XcSvr

• Elevated powershell: Set-NetFirewallProfile -DisabledInterfaceAliases "vEthernet (WSL)"

Ressources

• https://gitlab.com/bztsrc/bootboot/

• https://intermezzos.github.io/book/first-edition/preface.html

• https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity

• https://os.phil-opp.com/

• https://wiki.osdev.org/Main_Page

• https://github.com/jzck/kernel-zig

• https://github.com/AndreaOrru/zen

• https://github.com/ZystemOS/pluto

• https://github.com/longld/peda

• https://wiki.osdev.org/PC_Screen_Font

• https://gitlab.com/bztsrc/scalable-font2l

• https://0xax.gitbooks.io/linux-insides/content/Booting/linux-bootstrap-1.html

• https://github.com/cirosantilli/x86-bare-metal-examples

• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/980999/what-does-multicore-assembly-language-look-like/33651438#33651438

• https://github.com/nrdmn/uefi-examples

• https://kazlauskas.me/entries/x64-uefi-os-1.html

• https://uefi.org/sites/default/files/resources/UEFI_Spec_2_8_final.pdf

• https://jsandler18.github.io/

• https://github.com/s-matyukevich/raspberry-pi-os

• https://github.com/bztsrc/raspi3-tutorial

• https://isometimes.github.io/rpi4-osdev/