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) 2010-2011 - 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

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.

Sprint 1

Deadline: 07-03-2012

• provide task switching mechanism (Mechanism)
• Make a multitasking system (Policy)
• Fork the first kernel process (Policy)
• Implement systemcalls policy (Policy)
• Make stdio go through streams (stdin, stdout, stderr) (Policy)
• Implement pipes and streams through files (Policy)

Sprint 2

Deadline: 07-09-2012

• Allow kernel to use provided memory map (Mechanism)
• enable process protection mechanism (userspace) (Mechanism)
• Make the kernel actually use the memory map (Dynamically scale heap) (Policy)
• Build process protection policy (userspace) (Policy)

Sprint 3

Deadline: 07-03-2013

• Read an initrd from Grub (Mechanism)
• Mount the initrd (Policy)
• start the firs task from initrd (Policy)