FrostWing
A lightweight raw-control operating system.
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FrostWing Operating System

Welcome to FrostWing, a lightweight and flexible operating system designed for x86_64 platform. This README will guide you through the process of understanding the overall concept of the FrostWing Operating System.

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Note
To get a really good overview of this repository please visit https://githubtracker.com/Frost-Wing/osdev

Table of Contents

  • FrostWing Operating System
    • Table of Contents
    • Gallery
    • Currently working Features
      • Getting started
      • Hardware/Software (Emulator) Requirements
        • Minimum Requirements (BIOS)
        • Minimum Requirements (UEFI)
        • Recommended Requirements (BIOS)
        • Recommended Requirements (UEFI)
      • Booting to real machine
    • Contributing
    • License
    • FrostWing Team

Gallery

Refer the wiki for Gallary.*

Currently working Features

  • Interrupts
  • ACPI
    • Shutdown
    • Reboot
  • AHCI
    • Detecting Disks
  • CPU-ID
  • GDT
    • BIOS
    • UEFI
  • TSS
  • Hardware abstraction layer (HAL)
  • Memory
    • Heap memory allocator
    • Paging
  • PCI
    • Probing
    • Initializing required drivers
    • Storing the devices list
  • Timing
    • Real Time Clock
    • Programmable Interval Timer
  • Secure Boot
    • UEFI
    • BIOS
  • PS/2
    • Keyboard
    • Mouse
  • Graphics
    • OpenGL Renderer
    • Terminal emulator
    • Graphics card support
  • Networking
    • Ethernet
      • RTL Cards
        • RTL-8139 Networking
  • Serial communications (with Arduino, NodeMCU, Sparkfun, etc.)
  • Audio
    • PC Speaker

AND MUCH MORE...

Getting started

*Please refer wiki for steps for compiling**

Hardware/Software (Emulator) Requirements

Minimum Requirements (BIOS)

  • CPU Currently any x86_64 proccessor
  • RAM 75 MB
  • Storage Nothing required yet.
  • Graphics Only Framebuffer.

Minimum Requirements (UEFI)

  • CPU Currently any x86_64 proccessor
  • RAM 170 MB
  • Storage Nothing required yet.
  • Graphics Only Framebuffer.

Recommended Requirements (BIOS)

  • CPU Currently any x86_64 proccessor
  • RAM 128 MB
  • Storage Nothing required yet.
  • Graphics Integrated Graphics

Recommended Requirements (UEFI)

  • CPU Currently any x86_64 proccessor
  • RAM 256 MB
  • Storage Nothing required yet.
  • Graphics Integrated Graphics

Booting to real machine

This operating system is real machine bootable and tested under the following circumstances:

Boot Disk information:

  • Using 32 GB Pendrive
  • GPT Disk (MBR Also works)
  • Both BIOS / UEFI supported
  • Ventoy loaded
  • FrostWing.iso in the root directory
Important
It is recommended to use Ventoy because you will not have the risk of flashing and failing of USB-Drives.

Contributing

We welcome contributions to FrostWing! If you'd like to contribute code, report bugs, or suggest enhancements, please check our contribution guidelines.

License

FrostWing is open-source software released under the CC0-1.0 License. Feel free to use, modify, and distribute it as per the terms of this license.

FrostWing Team