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001 001 002 SOS: A Simple Operating Sy 002 SOS: A Simple Operating System 003 003 004 004 005 This is SOS, a Simple Operating Sy 005 This is SOS, a Simple Operating System for i386-family 006 processors. This is as simple as possible to 006 processors. This is as simple as possible to show a way to program a 007 basic Operating System on real common hardwar 007 basic Operating System on real common hardware (PC). The code should 008 be easily readable and understandable thanks t 008 be easily readable and understandable thanks to frequent comments, and 009 references to external documentation. We chos 009 references to external documentation. We chose to implement the basic 010 features of an OS, thus making design decis 010 features of an OS, thus making design decisions targetting towards 011 simplicity of understanding, covering most 011 simplicity of understanding, covering most of the OS classical 012 concepts, but not aiming at proposing ye 012 concepts, but not aiming at proposing yet another full-fledged 013 competitive OS (Linux is quite good at it). 013 competitive OS (Linux is quite good at it). However, for those who 014 would like to propose some enhancements, we 014 would like to propose some enhancements, we are open to any code 015 suggestions (patches only, please). And yes, 015 suggestions (patches only, please). And yes, there might be bugs in 016 the code, so please send us any bug report, an 016 the code, so please send us any bug report, and/or patches ! 017 017 018 The OS comes as a set of articles (in french) 018 The OS comes as a set of articles (in french) to be published in the 019 journal "Linux Magazine France". Each month 019 journal "Linux Magazine France". Each month, the part of the code 020 related to the current article's theme is rele 020 related to the current article's theme is released (see VERSION file), 021 and the resulting OS can be successfully comp 021 and the resulting OS can be successfully compiled and run, by booting 022 it from a floppy on a real machine (tested AM 022 it from a floppy on a real machine (tested AMD k7, Cyrix and Intel P4 023 pentiums), or through an x86 emulator (bochs 023 pentiums), or through an x86 emulator (bochs or qemu). The resulting 024 OS is available as a multiboot compliant ELF k 024 OS is available as a multiboot compliant ELF kernel (sos.elf) and as a 025 floppy image (fd.img). It provides a very ve 025 floppy image (fd.img). It provides a very very very basic demo whose 026 aim is to understand how everything works, no 026 aim is to understand how everything works, not to animate sprites on 027 the screen with 5:1 dolby sound. 027 the screen with 5:1 dolby sound. 028 028 029 The initial technical features and lack-of-fea 029 The initial technical features and lack-of-features of the OS are: 030 - monolithic kernel, fully interruptible, non 030 - monolithic kernel, fully interruptible, non-preemptible (big kernel 031 lock), target machines = i386 PC or better 031 lock), target machines = i386 PC or better 032 - compiles on any host where the gcc/binutils 032 - compiles on any host where the gcc/binutils toolchain (target 033 i586-gnu) is available. Can be tested on re 033 i586-gnu) is available. Can be tested on real i486/pentium 034 hardware, or on any host that can run an i4 034 hardware, or on any host that can run an i486/pentium PC emulator 035 (bochs or qemu) 035 (bochs or qemu) 036 - kernel loaded by grub or by a sample bootse !! 036 - kernel loaded by grub, or by a sample bootsector (up to article 2 >> 037 ONLY) 037 - clear separation of physical memory and vir 038 - clear separation of physical memory and virtual memory concepts, 038 even inside the kernel: no identity-mapping 039 even inside the kernel: no identity-mapping of the physical memory 039 inside the kernel (allows to move virtual m 040 inside the kernel (allows to move virtual mappings of kernel pages 040 at run-time, eg to free ISA DMA pages, and 041 at run-time, eg to free ISA DMA pages, and to avercome the 4G RAM 041 barrier) 042 barrier) 042 - slab-type kernel memory allocation 043 - slab-type kernel memory allocation 043 - no swap, no reverse mapping 044 - no swap, no reverse mapping 044 - VERY simple drivers: keyboard, x86 video me 045 - VERY simple drivers: keyboard, x86 video memory, IDE disks 045 - logical devices: partitions, FAT filesystem 046 - logical devices: partitions, FAT filesystem, "hard-coded" 046 mountpoints only (~ MSDOS) 047 mountpoints only (~ MSDOS) 047 - no network stack 048 - no network stack 048 - user-level features: ELF loader (no shared 049 - user-level features: ELF loader (no shared libraries), processes, 049 user threads (kernel-level scheduling only) 050 user threads (kernel-level scheduling only), mmap API, basic VFS 050 051 051 To understand where to look at for what, here 052 To understand where to look at for what, here is a brief description: 052 - Makefile: the (ONLY) makefile of the OS. Ta 053 - Makefile: the (ONLY) makefile of the OS. Targets are basically 053 'all' and 'clean' 054 'all' and 'clean' 054 - bootstrap/ directory: code to load the kern 055 - bootstrap/ directory: code to load the kernel. Both the stuff 055 needed for a multiboot-compliant loader (eg 056 needed for a multiboot-compliant loader (eg grub) AND a bootsector 056 are provided. !! 057 are provided. The bootsector may only be used up to article 2. 057 - sos/ directory: the entry routine for the k 058 - sos/ directory: the entry routine for the kernel (main.c), various 058 systemwide header files, a set of common us 059 systemwide header files, a set of common useful C routines 059 ("nano-klibc"), and kernel subsystems (kern 060 ("nano-klibc"), and kernel subsystems (kernel memory management, 060 etc...) 061 etc...) 061 - hwcore/ directory: Low-level CPU- and kerne 062 - hwcore/ directory: Low-level CPU- and kernel-related routines 062 (interrupt/exception management, translatio 063 (interrupt/exception management, translation tables and segment 063 registers, ...) 064 registers, ...) 064 - drivers/ directory: basic kernel drivers fo 065 - drivers/ directory: basic kernel drivers for various (non CPU) 065 devices (keyboard, x86 video memory, bochs 066 devices (keyboard, x86 video memory, bochs 0xe9 port, ...). Used 066 mainly for debugging 067 mainly for debugging 067 - support/ directory: scripts and configurati 068 - support/ directory: scripts and configuration files to build the 068 floppy images 069 floppy images 069 - extra/ directory: a set of configuration fi 070 - extra/ directory: a set of configuration files to be customized for 070 non-x86 host installations (yes, we primari 071 non-x86 host installations (yes, we primarily develop SOS on a ppc, for 071 the x86 target of course), or for grub-less 072 the x86 target of course), or for grub-less installations. See 072 README file in this directory. 073 README file in this directory. 073 074 074 The code is licensed under the terms of the GN 075 The code is licensed under the terms of the GNU GPL version 2 (see 075 LICENSE file). 076 LICENSE file). 076 077 077 Enjoy ! 078 Enjoy ! 078 079 079 David Decotigny, Thoma 080 David Decotigny, Thomas Petazzoni, the Kos team 080 081 http://sos.enix.org/ 081 http:/ 082 http://david.decotigny.free.fr/ 082 htt 083 http://kos.enix.org/~thomas/ 083 084 http://kos.enix.org/ 084 085 085 086 086 -- 087 -- 087 David Decotigny 088 David Decotigny 088 089 089 PS: Made with a Mac. 090 PS: Made with a Mac.
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