OSdev tutorial

This project follows tutorials from https://wiki.osdev.org and other resources in order to develop a basic OS and gain knowledge about how OS's are built and how they work.

TODO

Loading kernel

• Bootloader
• Boot
• Basic kernel

GDT & IDT

• GDT Tutorial (osdev)
• IDT (osdev)
• The GDT and IDT (JamesM)

Interrupt Requests (IRQs) and Programmable Interval Timer (PIT)

• IRQs and the PIT (JamesM)

Reading from Keyboard

• The keyboard (brandon)

Paging

• Setting up Paging (osdev)
• Writing a Page Frame allocator (osdev)

Memory

• Detecting Memory (osdev)
• Creating a Memory map (osdev)
• Writing a Memory Manager (osdev)
• Brendan's Memory Management Guide
• The Heap (JamesM)

Future

• Filesystem
• Terminal/shell
• Processes
• Userspace

Useful links

• OSDev wiki
• OSDever.net tutorials
• Bran's kernel development
• JamesM's Kernel Development tutorials
• Carlos Fenollosa's OS-tutorial (github)

Books/PDFs

• Little OS book
• Writing a simple Operating System from scratch (pdf)