Nucleus is the first C++11 kernel.
The main purpose is to make intensive use of the most advance state-of-the-art C++ features to get the most elegant, flexible and scalable kernel design. Porting the kernel on a new target should only be subject to a very few additions.
The design philosophy of nucleus is:
- rely as much as possible on C++ and its standard library.
- make static everything known at compile-time.
- use virtual classes only when polymorphism is needed at run-time; use generic programming otherwise.
We strongly believe that rich software designs highly increase software expressiveness, flexibility and scalability. The STL is the best illustration of such a design.
To ensure this, nucleus is being developed in parallel on multiple architectures and platforms to immediately observe the impacts of our design choices.
Another interest of using C++ for kernel programming is to get the most out of its beautiful STL. This is why nucleus is composed of two sub-projects : libk & libkxx - two generic, portable and kernel-oriented C and C++ libraries needed by the STL or language’s features.
$ ./configure [OPTIONS] && makeSee ./configure --help for every configuration details.
- On IA-32 / IBM-PC
# Use grub or try it with Qemu
$ qemu -kernel nucleus.elf- On ARM / OMAP & Realview PBX-A9
$ objcopy -O binary nucleus.elf nucleus.bin
# Try it with Qemu
$ qemu-system-arm -M realview-pbx-a9 -nographic -kernel nucleus.bin
# Or build an u-boot image
$ mkimage -A arm -O u-boot -C none -e 0x80000000 -a 0x80000000 -d nucleus.bin uImage- Patrick Samy
- Julio Guerra