Andromeda Readme

Andromeda History

The andromeda kernel is a system built by:

• Bart Kuivenhoven.
• Michel Megens
• Steven van der Schoot.

We built this system to expand our knowledge about operating system theories.

Copying

The Andromeda kernel is licenced as GNU General Public Licence version 3 or newer. The COPYING file should contian more information about the licence, or if it's not included, look at http://www.gnu.org/licences/.

Andromeda kernel
Copyright (C) 2011-2013 - Bart Kuivenhoven, Michel Megens, Steven vd Schoot

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.

Building

The requirements to build the kernel are relatively light.

To retreive the kernel:

• git

To compile:

• gcc
• g++
• ld
• nasm
• A working linux installation (for compilation without tweaks to the Makefiles)

To test:

• qemu

Contributing

This kernel is free software and we welcome contributions of any form. Below is a list of possible things you could help with, or you could just scratch your own itch, that's just fine.

There's a number of ways to get your changes into the kernel code. One of those is to send us a pull-request, and then send this to us in the google group/ mailing list. Of course you can also format patches and send those in to the same group.

Github pull requests might work for some projects, but in order to keep the development in a central place, the preference goes out to patches and pull requests in the google group mailing list.

[email protected]

TODO

• Provide a task swiching mechanism (in progress)
• Make a multitasking policy (in progress)
• Fork the first process
• Implement systemcalls (made start, no progress)
• Make stdin, stdout and stderr go through streams
• Implement pipes and stream through files
• Make kernel interpret memory map (complete)
• Make kernel use memory map (complete)
• Enable process protection mechanism (in progress)
• Build process protection policy
• Get the initrd from Grub
• Mount the initrd
• Start first task (/bin/init) from initrd