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What are some resources for getting started in operating system development? [closed]

由 浪子不回头ぞ 提交于 2019-11-26 10:53:49
Adam Davis

There are a lot of links after this brief overview of what is involved in writing an OS for the X86 platform.

The link that appears to be most promising (www.nondot.org/sabre/os/articles) is no longer available, so you'll need to poke through the Archive.org version to read it.

At the end of the day the bootloader takes the machine code of the kernel, puts it in memory, and jumps to it. You can put any machine code in the kernel that you want, but most C programs expect an OS so you'll need to tell your compiler that it won't have all that, or the bootloader has to create some of it.

The kernel then does all the heavy lifting, and I suspect it's the example kernel you want. But there's a long way to go between having a kernel that says, "Hello world" to having a kernel that loads a command interpretor, provides disk services, and loads and manages programs.

You might want to consider subscribing to ACM to get access to their older literature - there are lots of articles in the late 80's and early 90's in early computing magazines about how to create alternative OSs. There are likely books that are out of print from this era as well. You might be able to get the same information for free by looking up the indexes of those magazines (which are available on that site - click "index" near the magazine name) and then asking around for people with a copy.

Lastly, I know that usenet is dead (for so sayeth the prophets of internet doom) but you'll find that many of the craggy old experts from that era still live there. You should search google groups (they have dejanews's old repository) and I expect you'll find many people asking the same questions a decade or 1.5 ago that you're asking now. You may even run across Linus Torvalds' many queries for help as he was developing linux originally. If searches don't bring anything up, ask in the appropriate newsgroup (probably starts with comp.arch, but search for ones with OS in the name).

Minix is a lot smaller, and designed for learning purposes, and the book to go with it is a good one too.

Update: I guess Minix 3 is a bit of a different goal, but Minix 2 (and of course the first version) were for teaching purposes.

As someone who has written a real-time multi-tasking operating system from scratch...

keyboard debounce routine, keyboard driver, disk driver, video driver, file system, and finally a boot-loader - and that's just to launch it for the first time with nothing to do!

... I cannot emphasize enough how important it is to get familiar with the hardware! This is especially so if you really want to do it all yourself instead of just picking up a primitive system someone else has already laid out for you. For example, contact Intel and ask them for a CPU card for your type of CPU! This will lay it out for you - the "pin-outs", interrupts, opcodes, you name it!

Remember the hardware makes it all possible. Study the hardware. You won't regret it.

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Write a microcontroller OS. I recommend an x86 based microcontroller. A modern OS is just huge. Learn the basics first.

I wish there was one place to get all of the info about developing your own OS. The closest to come to that is OS Dev Wiki and Forums. They offer a ton of good information regarding the setup, development, and device hardware information.

Also there are some great tutorials at BoneFide, I've used the getting started tutorial by Bran, and am now looking at a more recent one based on his called Roll your own toy UNIX-clone OS.

I second checking out: "Operating Systems : Design and Implementation"

And if you want to develop on Windows, check out jolson's blog post.

Edit: For development on windows using Visual Studio, check out BrokenThorn's guide or OSDev's wiki.

An excellent resource is the material of the MIT course 6.828: Operating System Engineering.

XV6 - simple Unix-like teaching OS written in ANSI C for x86 http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.828/2012/xv6.html

XV6 source - as a printed booklet with line numbers http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.828/2012/xv6/xv6-rev7.pdf

XV6 book - explains the main ideas of os design http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.828/2012/xv6/book-rev7.pdf

The material is compact: 92 pages source and 96 pages commentary.

I like it more than the Minix book! It's a true gem!

you also might want to take a look at SharpOS which is an operating system that they're writing in c#.

There are good resources for operating system fundamentals in books. Since there isn't much call to create new OS's from scratch you won't find a ton of hobbyist type information on the internet.

I recommend the standard text book, "Modern Operating Systems" by Tanenbaum. You may also be able to find "Operating System Elements" by Calingaert useful - it's a thin overview of a book which give a rough sketch of what an OS is from a designer's standpoint.

If you have any interest in real time systems (and you should at least understand the differences and reasons for real time OS's) then I'd also recommend "MicroC/OS-II" by Labrosse.

Edit:

Can you specify what you mean by "more technical"? These books give pseudo code implementation details, but are you looking for an example OS, or code snippets for a particular machine/language?

-Adam

Just coming from another question. I'd like to mention Pintos... I remembered my OS course with Nachos and Pintos seems to be the same kind of thing that can run on x86.

I found Robert Love's Linux Kernel Development quite interesting. It tells you about how the different subsystems in the Linux kernel works in a very down-to-earth way. Since the source is available Linux is a prime candidate for something to hack on.

Dinah

Here are some other Stack Overflow pages worth incorporating into this discussion:

Roadblocks in creating a custom operating system
Developing an operating system for the x86 architecture

Start hacking away at Minix. It's a lot smaller than Linux (obviously) and it's designed with teaching purposes in mind (some, at least). Not Minix 3 though, that's a whole different story.

Already answer, but when I took Operating Systems in college we started with an early linux kernel and added simplistic modern features (basic file systems, virtual memory, multitasking, mutexes). Good fun. You get to skip some of the REALLY crazy low level assembly only stuff for mucking w/ protected mode and page tables while still learned some of the guts.

http://kerneltrap.org/node/14002 http://kerneltrap.org/files/linux-0.01.tar.bz2

My operating systems course in undergrad had us building a number of subsystems for OS/161, a simple, BSD-like kernel that provides some of the basics while leaving the freedom to explore various design space decisions in implementing higher-level services.

You might want to look at linuxfromscratch.

Linux From Scratch (LFS) is a project that provides you with step-by-step instructions for building your own custom Linux system, entirely from source code.

Srujan

A simple and basic OS development tutorial designed to be a semester's project. It guides you through to build an OS with basic components. Very good start for beginners. Related paper is here.

I would like to include this repo How-to-Make-a-Computer-Operating-System by Samy Pesse. Is a work-in-progress. Very interesting.

One reasonably simple OS to study would be µC/OS. The book has a floppy with the source on it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MicroC/OS-II

Check out the Managed Operating System Alliance (MOSA) Project at www.mosa-project.org. They are designing an AOT/JIT compiler and fully managed operating system in C#. Some of the developers are from the inactive SharpOS project.

I've toyed with Cosmos, which is "an operating system project implemented completely in CIL compliant languages." It's written in C#, so that was right up my alley. For someone like myself who has never attempted to build an operating system, it was actually pretty cool to be able to get a "Hello World" operating system running in no time.

Check out this site: http://osix.net/modules/article/?id=359

As mentioned above, the OSDev Wiki is (by far) the best source for OS development. For those of you who speak German, the lowlevel.eu Wiki is also great. Something relatively unknown Incitatus OS, a simple kernel with a tiny set of userspace apps. It's great to use for getting into the complicated topic of OS development.

Movitz is a Lisp environment written in Common Lisp and running "on the metal". Unfortunately, some links on the Movitz main page deny access, but you can find instructions on how to download and compile the source code from the trac page. Also, a ready image can be found on the archive of this page.

IMHO this is utmost interesting, as it brings back the Lisp machine concept on the currently available hardware. It failed commercially, but this does not prove to me that the idea was bad.

The Unix haters handbook is a fun book that semi-seriously berates the concept of Unix and its derivatives. Many sections argument about how better the Lisp machine concept was.

James Moore

Here's a paper called "Writing a Simple Operating System From Scratch". It covers writing a bootloader, entering x86-32 protected mode, and writing a basic kernel in C. It seems to do a good job at explaining everything in detail.

The x86 JS simulator and ARM simulator can also be very useful to understand how different pieces hardware works and make tests without exiting your favourite browser.

BharatKhanna

Intresting Question for the programmers. See it will take long long long time to build OS like Windows or Mac but if you want build a simple ones then you can try your best

  1. You need to focus on Assembly Language,C and C++. You should be expert in these languages.
  2. First read a good book on how OS works[Google it], then read all the info from Wiki OS
  3. Search in youtube "How to create your own OS in Assembly Language" watch the video, Eg. Video
  4. Download Linux OS source code and compile it yourself and try to modify the code yourself
  5. Now you are an experienced OS editor now download Minix and QNX and start developing with them and get their docs from here Minix Doc and QNX Doc

Now you have gained the master degree(Not completely just a little more to go) in creating OS now distribute this knownledge to your freinds and with their help try to create an OS as powerful as Mac, Linux or Windows

user69969

When you have made a basic operating system it's actually hard to continue because there isn't many ressources on making GUIs or porting libraries. But i think taking a look at ToAruOS would help a lot!

The code under the surface of that OS is so damn simple! but at the same time he has ported things like cairo, python, (not yet but soon) sdl, made share memory and he has also made his own widget toolkit. It's all written in C.

Another interesting OS would be pedigreeOS. It's made by JamesM (the man behind jamesM's kernel tutorial. While it has more features than ToaruOS it's also bigger and more confusing.

But anyway these 2 OS will help you a lot especially ToAruOS.

ali

When I started working on my basic operating systems I needed a basic guide like Stepping stones for a basic operating system. It helped me not loose my head.

That if you want to make it from absolutely nothing (pure assembly code)

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