MiniatureOS

A minimalist, hobbyist bootloader and kernel created to explore the fundamentals of operating system development. The goal is to implement everything from scratch with zero external dependencies.

Current Features (non-exhaustive)

• 4-stage BIOS bootloader
• Processes & Scheduling:
  • Basic round-robin scheduler for now
  • Support for kernel and user threads
• File Systems:
  • ext2 driver
  • initramfs support
• Program loading: ELF binaries
• Synchronization primitives: mutex, rwlock, etc.

Build

Add nightly toolchain

rustup target add x86_64-unknown-none

Configure cargo

Add the following to .cargo/config.toml:

 [unstable]
  # enable the unstable artifact-dependencies feature, see
  # https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/cargo/reference/unstable.html#artifact-dependencies
  bindeps = true