NIX Linux Kernel

Some of it's Features

• Grub and Multiboot bootloader supported.

• Complete support for 5 entries GDT(null, kernel code, kernel data, user code, user data) on x86.

• Complete support for 256 entries IDT(32 system interrupts and 16 PIC interrupts) on x86.

• Complete support for Modern Keyboards input.

• Complete support for 4096 bytes paging, dynamical memory management with heap.

• Modern file system(VFS) and initrd is implemented.

• Useful shell to interact with the system.

Build The Kernel

• Clean the build files first.

  make clean

• If using MacOS, install cross-build i386-elf toolchain first.

  brew tap nativeos/i386-elf-toolchain
  brew install i386-elf-binutils i386-elf-gcc

• Then, simply run Make

  make

Running Kernel in QEMU

qemu-system-x86_64 -kernel kernel