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Welcome to the Kernel Panic wiki!

Kernel panic is a small, real-time kernel originally designed as the software for Team Panic’s entry to the IEEE Micromouse competition. The kernel is mainly developed by Andrew Thomson with some bits by Laine Walker-Avina. The kernel is released under the terms of the GPLv2.

The kernel has the following features:

• Small memory footprint (<2k RAM, <30k flash with kernel and application code)
• Differed interrupt processing for real-time performance
• Support for semaphores, mutexs, Dual mode locks, gather scatter locks, and signals
• Pre-emptive Thread Scheduling
• Worker threads
• Programmable Watchdog.
• Machine independent implementation (all machine specifics are in one file)

It currently supports the following microcontrollers:

• AVR (ATmega128)
• ARM7 (soon)

Panic can be run as a user mode Unix Process
Supported Targets Include:

• Linux
• Open BSD
• Mac OSX

Panic v1 in action:

An early test of Panic v2: