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@@ -5,39 +5,40 @@ Welcome to FoolOS Abstract -------- -Welcome to the Home of the most useless operating system. +Welcome to the Home of the worlds most useless operating system. Quick-start ----------- -Simply boot from the FoolOS.iso in your favourite emulator or -_dd_ to an USB stick and test on real hardware. +Simply boot from the __FoolOS.iso__ in your favourite emulator +or __dd__ to an USB stick and test on real hardware. Features -------- -* Booting with Multiboot (grub) +* Booting with Multiboot (e.g. GRUB 2) * 32-bit protected mode -* VESA and EGA-standard text-mode * Logging to COM1 * Parsing ACPI and Multiboot Data (partly) * Symmetrical Multiprocessing with LAPIC and IOAPIC * APIC and PIT Timers -* Seperate GDT and IVT on each CPU +* Seperate GDT and IVT for each CPU * Paging / Virtual Memory * RAM image (ext2 read-only) -* VESA Framebuffer with fallback to a text-only terminal * Standard streams (stdin/stdout/stderr) -* Mouse and Keyboard +* Mouse and Keyboard support * Multithreading & Multitasking -* Kernel and Userspace Tasks (ring 0/ring 3) +* Kernel and Userspace Tasks * CPU Private Memory -* Superfast Task Scheduler -* Newlib C library for Userspace -* ELF binaries +* Support for ELF binaries. * IRQ Handling Framework -* Spinlocks -* Simple Shell -* PCI bus scanning +* Finegrained Spinlocks +* Superfast Task Scheduler +* PCI Bus scanning +* VESA Framebuffer with fallback to a text-only terminal +* C-library for Userspace (Newlib) +* Simple FoolShell +* Snake Game +* Ships with other useless userspace software _Please note that most features are only very rudimentary and mostly buggy._ @@ -48,8 +49,11 @@ providing a multiboot header and the entry point _start(). This in turn calls the C function kernel_main(). -Prequisites ------------ +Building +-------- + +You should at least setup a gcc cross-compiler and setup newlib to +build FoolOS yourself. GCC CROSS-COMPILER (i686-elf) |