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# <img width="40" height="40" alt="red-pepper" src="https://i.ibb.co/mrHH6d1m/pixil-frame-0-4.png" /> pepperOS: "will never be done"
## Trying the kernel
First install the dependencies: `sudo apt install xorriso make qemu-system`
Then, to compile the kernel and make an ISO image file: `make build-iso`
To run it with QEMU, `make run`
## TODO
The basics that I'm targeting are:
- Fix terminal driver (backspace issues, scrolling) OR add Flanterm or equivalent
- Implement paging / see what Limine does at boot with memory management
- Implement tasks, and task switching
- Load an executable
- Scheduler (round-robin using the PIT timer interrupt)
- Filesystem (TAR for read-only initfs, then maybe read-write using FAT12/16/32
- Getting to userspace (syscalls)
- Porting musl libc or equivalent
In the future, maybe?
- SMP support
- Parsing the ACPI tables and using them for something
- Replacing the PIT timer with APIC
## Thanks
PepperOS wouldn't be possible without the following freely-licensed software:
- the [Limine](https://codeberg.org/Limine/Limine) portable bootloader
- Marco Paland's freestanding [printf implementation](https://github.com/mpaland)
- the [ZAP](https://www.zap.org.au/projects/console-fonts-zap/) PSF console fonts
...and without these amazing resources:
- the [OSDev](https://osdev.org) wiki & forums