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Welcome to my OS Development page, this site is for people looking into
developing their own operating system. I would just like to give you a few
guide lines for you to help you in your OS development before I present the
actual resources. You should write you kernel in C, the compiler you should
use is GCC and you should develop your OS under GNU/Linux. That is what I
recommend because it will make your life a hell of a lot easier. You will
need to find an ELF loader so that you can load you kernel etc. GazOS is my
OS and it presents you with a perfect example of how to do this, although I
now use my own ELF loader.
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Boot process |
This is the stage that is executed when you turn on your computer, in this
section you will find a few bootsector tutorials, incluing one written by
me to help you understand how the boot process works |
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Protected Mode |
All modern OSes should be written for protected mode. Protected mode gives
you many more advantages over real mode, such as you can access all memory
and you have protection from programs overwritting each other. It does
however have its disadvantages, you cannot access the BIOS. This means that
you need to write all your own drivers etc, but this is good aswell because
the BIOS drivers are SLOW! |
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Hardware |
In this section I will provide you with source code, documentation etc on
how to write your own drivers so that you dont have to use the BIOS.
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Kernels |
Here I will give you some source code, links and documentation to various
kernels and information so that it helps you understand.
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Links |
A few links to other places and things that you may need that have been lef
out of the other sections
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