beckbikang / PowerNex

A kernel written in D

PowerNex

PowerNex is a kernel written in the D Programming Language. The goal is to have a whole OS written in D, where PowerNex powers the core.

The name PowerNex comes from the words power and next. A kernel to power the next generation of hardware. (Please don't hate on the name, I came up with it in 2011)

Building

It required a crosscompiler, see link below for download. It uses my build system called Wild It expects the wild binary to be located in the root directory of PowerNex, then you just need to run ./build to build.

Prebuild toolchain (wild and compilers) for (Arch)Linux x64

One tip is to run source env.sh, this adds shortcuts for building and running. b compiles and runs PowerNex in qemu, v just builds PowerNex.

System requirements

• A 64bit processor
• At least 32 MiB of ram

Recommended & Supported Virtual Machines

• QEMU
• VirtualBox

Thanks to

• Adam D. Ruppe - For his minimal.zip, which contains a bare bone minimal d runtime. Which this kernel is based on.
• Bloodmanovski - For his D Kernel Trinix His files for booting x64 really helped me alot.

Authors

Dan Printzell

License

Mozilla Public License, version 2.0