ersenal/incitatus-os

Stage 3 Dissertation project. The aim is to create an X86-32bit operating system as a vehicle to learn about operating systems from a student perspective.

Incitatus-OS

Stage 3 Dissertation project. The aim is to create an X86-32bit operating system as a vehicle to learn about operating systems from a student perspective.

##Progress

##Running the OS

› The simplest and most risk-free way is to run it on emulators such as VirtualBox, Qemu or Bochs
	› Boot from "image.iso"(inside bin folder) CD image.

› Or, you may test-run(at your own risk) the OS on a 32-bit or 64-bit X86 PC.
	› Burn "image.iso" and boot from CD.

##Tasks

✔ Setup development environment
	 ✔ OS
		Linux 3.2.0 X86-64bit
	 ✔ Cross-compiler toolchain
		Binutils 2.22
		GCC-i586-elf 4.6.3
	 ✔ Editor-Debugger
		Sublime Text v2
		GDB 7.4

 Programming
	 ✔ Rudimentary debugging functions, screen output
	 ✔ Module manager
	 ✔ Global descriptor table
	 ✔ Interrupt descriptor table
	 ✔ Interrupt service routines
	 ✔ Physical memory management
	 ✔ Virtual memory management
	 ✔ Kernel heap memory management
	 ✔ Context switching, multi-tasking
	 ✔ PS/2 Controller, keyboard driver
	 ✔ Virtual File System, ramdisk
	 ✔ Ring 0 to Ring 3 switch
	 ✔ System call interface
	 ✔ Shell

##License

Copyright 2013 Ali Ersenal. Licensed under WTFPL V2.