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Long overdue update to the README about the project in general as well
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# jsix: A toy OS kernel
# jsix: A hobby operating system
**jsix** is the kernel for the hobby OS that I am currently building. It's
far from finished, or even being usable. Instead, it's a sandbox for me to play
**jsix** is the hobby operating system that I am currently building. It's far
from finished, or even being usable. Instead, it's a sandbox for me to play
with kernel-level code and explore architectures.
The design goals of the project are:
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* Modernity - I'm not interested in designing for legacy systems, or running on
all hardware out there. My target is only 64 bit architecutres, and modern
commodity hardware. Currently that means x64 systems with Nehalem or newer
CPUs and UEFI firmware. Eventually I'd like to work on an AArch64 port,
CPUs and UEFI firmware. (See [this list][cpu_features] for the currently
required CPU features.) Eventually I'd like to work on an AArch64 port,
partly to force myself to factor out the architecture-dependent pieces of the
code base.
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processes as possible, in the microkernel fashion. A sub-goal of this is to
explore where the bottlenecks of such a microkernel are now, and whether
eschewing legacy hardware will let me design a system that's less bogged down
by the traditional microkernel problems. Given that there are no processes
yet, the kernel is monolithic by default.
by the traditional microkernel problems.
* Exploration - I'm really mostly doing this to have fun learning and exploring
modern OS development. Modular design may be tossed out (hopefully
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jsix (Always styled _jsix_ or `j6`, never capitalized) as an homage to L4, xv6,
and my wonderful wife.
[cpu_features]: https://github.com/justinian/jsix/blob/master/src/libraries/cpu/include/cpu/features.inc
## Building
jsix uses the [Ninja][] build tool, and generates the build files for it with a
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downloaded as a prebuilt binary from its Github repository.
[Ninja]: https://ninja-build.org
[Bonnibel]: https://github.com/justinian/bonnibel
[Bonnibel]: https://github.com/justinian/bonnibel_rs
[Cargo]: https://crates.io/crates/bonnibel
Requrirements:
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a windows WSL debian testing/buster installation. The following should be
enough to set up such a system to build the kernel:
sudo apt install qemu-system-x86 nasm clang-6.0 mtools curl
sudo update-alternatives /usr/bin/clang clang /usr/bin/clang-6.0 1000
sudo update-alternatives /usr/bin/clang++ clang++ /usr/bin/clang++-6.0 1000
curl -L -o pb https://github.com/justinian/bonnibel/releases/download/2.0.0/pb_linux_amd64 && chmod a+x pb
sudo apt install qemu-system-x86 nasm clang-10 mtools curl ninja-build
sudo update-alternatives /usr/bin/clang clang /usr/bin/clang-10 1000
sudo update-alternatives /usr/bin/clang++ clang++ /usr/bin/clang++-10 1000
curl -L -o pb https://github.com/justinian/bonnibel_rs/releases/download/v2.3.0/pb-linux-amd64 && chmod a+x pb