thethumbler / aquila-kernel

Rewrite of Aquila kernel in Rust

Aquila Kernel

This is the kernel for AquilaOS re-written in Rust. Currently it's unsafe mess with a lot of traces of C code.

Build

Prerequisites:

• rustc nightly (1.45.0)
• cargo-post and cargo-xbuild installed (use $ cargo install cargo-post cargo-xbuild)
• lld (LLVM ld) (use $ apt install lld, $ dnf install lld or you system package manager)

then run the following command to build kernel.elf

$ cargo post xbuild --target configs/i686/i686-unknown-none.json --release

Run

The kernel is multiboot compliant and you can use any multiboot bootloader to use it. You need a ramdisk image from aquila in order to use the system, a binary image is provided in this repo for ease of use (it will be removed later).

For simplicity you can use Qemu directly to load the kernel and the ramdisk:

$ qemu-kvm -kernel target/i686-unknown-none/release/kernel.elf -nographic -initrd initrd.img

(on debian based distros, you might need to use $ qemu-system-i386 -enable-kvm instead)

(Note: to quit in nographic mode in Qemu use Ctrl-A+X)