Welcome to pvKernel Discussions

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Welcome to pvKernel Discussions

pvKernel is an experimental open-source x86_64 operating system kernel written
in Rust and developed as the foundation of pvOS.

This space is intended for community conversations that do not belong in a
specific bug report or pull request.

What belongs here

You can use Discussions to:

• ask questions about pvKernel;
• propose architectural ideas;
• discuss future features and roadmap items;
• share experiments or projects built with pvKernel;
• request clarification about the codebase;
• introduce yourself if you are interested in contributing.

Where to report other things

• Use Issues for reproducible bugs, concrete tasks, and feature proposals
  that are ready to be tracked.
• Use Pull Requests for code or documentation changes.
• Use the private process described in
  SECURITY.md
  for suspected security vulnerabilities.

Please do not publish security-sensitive information in a public discussion.

Current project status

pvKernel is still in a very early stage of development.

The current public milestone includes:

• UEFI boot;
• an x86_64 kernel entry point;
• boot memory map access;
• linear framebuffer output;
• serial port diagnostics;
• panic handling;
• a CPU halt loop.

Core features such as kernel-owned exception handling, memory allocation,
processes, userspace, filesystems, device drivers, and networking are not yet
implemented.

Community guidelines

Please keep discussions constructive, technical, and respectful.

When asking for help, include relevant details such as:

• the pvKernel version or commit;
• your operating system and development environment;
• the exact command you ran;
• complete error output;
• steps required to reproduce the problem.

Thanks for following the development of pvKernel.