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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)
• Short critical sections for real-time performance
• Full semaphores/mutexs
• Pre-emptive scheduling with hard-priority
• Worker threads for deferred interrupt processing
• Machine independent implementation (all machine specifics are in one file)

It currently supports the following architectures:

• AVR (ATmega128)
• Linux simulator
• ARM7 (soon)

Panic v1 in action:

An early test of Panic v2: