Rock

rockOS is a simple kernel that strives to be unix-like, we use mlibc and have various pieces of unix software ported such as bash and the gnu coreutils

Features

• PMM/VMM (4/5 level paging)
• XAPIC/X2APIC
• IDT/GDT/TSS
• EXT2
• VFS
• RAMFS
• DEVFS
• SMP
• PCI
• AHCI
• NVME
• XHCI (Work in progress)
• intel HD audio
• HPET
• Preemptive multicore scheduler
• Slab allocator

Goals

• Port various pieces of software like gcc, python, xwayland, etc
• Create a network stack with TCP, ARP, UDP, DHCP, ICMP, etc

Build Instructions

Here are some programs you will need to build rock:

• nasm
• make
• qemu
• tar
• sed
• wget
• git
• xbstrap

Once you have those run the script build_tools.sh in /tools

To compile and run rock, there are three default build targets available:

• make qemu
  • run with regular qemu (live serial debugger)
• make info
  • run with the qemu console
• make debug
  • run with the qemu interrupt monitor

Contributing

Contributors are very welcome, just make sure to use the same code style as me :^)