square kernel

Square-Kernel

A kernel for simple X86 processors and Open-Source, developed by hobby in an attempt to learn on the subject.

Implementation

• Proteced-Mode 32 bits (implemented)

• VGA-BUFFER (implemented)

• Basic PM - Process Manager (implemented)

• Basic MM - Memory Manager (implemented)

• Advanced PM

• Hardware Support (keyboard and etc)

• BASIC FS - FILE SYSTEM (in progress)

Compilation and emulation

It is not recommended to try to boot on a real machine, the project is still incomplete and there is no certainty that the safety for hardware is guaranteed

Compilation facilities

• NASM - Assembly X86 compiler
• GCC - C compiler
• LD - LINKER

Download an emulator

To run the project you need to have an X86 emulator installed, the project uses QEMU

Download the Github project:

 git clone https://github.com/https-dre/square-kernel/tree/main
cd square-kernel

Create a directory for construction files

 mkdir build

Run the makefile

Generating virtual disc with kernel:

 make build

Run the kernel along with the bootloader:

 make run

To run the virtual disk on VMware:

 make release_vmware

So a virtual disk .VMDK will be generated, try boot with this disk on VMware.

License

This project is licensed under the GNU V3.0 General Public License - See the license file for more details.