- As an honors supplement to CS361: Systems Programming, I am following Phillip Oppermann's guide on writing an small OS in Rust.
| Milestone | Description | Possible Extensions | Target Completion Date | Completed? |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bare Bones Build | Set up the build environment to build for running on bare metal. Create a boot image. | None | 02-07 | Notes! |
| VGA Buffers + Testing | Write to screen in a VM and create a testing framework | Create a logging system which can be used to report debugging information | 02-14 | Notes! |
| CPU Exceptions | Implement the interrupt descriptor table and register preservation | TBD... | 02-21 | |
| Double Fault Exceptions | Handle double faults! Implement handling errors in errors | TBD... | 02-28 | |
| Hardware Interrupts | Forward all hardware interrupts to the CPU | Support APIC over Intel 8259 PIC | 03-07 | |
| Paging Implementation | Page table implementation (4-level 0x86_64) | Comparable page table implementations (Inverted, hierarchical, segmented) | 03-14 | |
| Heap Allocation | Re-implement Rust allocation interface for dynamic memory support | TBD... | 03-21 | |
| Heap Allocators | Implement allocator designs (bump allocation, linked lists, fixed-block) | Research and implement additional allocaor designs | 03-28 | |
| Cooperative Multitasking | Futures, Polls, Pins, oh my. | TBD... | 04-02 | |
| Preemptive Multitasking | Async keyboard Task using Wakers and Atomic Wakers. | TBD... | 04-09 | |
| Threads and Scheduling? | ... | TBD... | 04-16 | |
| Userspace? | ... | TBD... | 04-23 |