CATernel

CATernel is research purpose uKernel over x86 Architecture, so far..

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How is it built

• Building
  • $ git clone https://github.com/SaadTalaat/CATernel.git download source code
  • $ make image outputs image into 'kern/kernel/CATernel.img`
  • $ make clean removes the kern output directory.
  • $ make iso generates iso image of the kernel

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Usage

CATernel could work either on emulators or x86 Hardware

• Bochs:
  • bochs If you are in source directory, you only need to run bochs If you are on independent directory make sure you copy bochsrc or use it as configuration file
• Qemu:
  • qemu-system-i386 -hda kern/kernel/CATernel.img Run as hard disk image
  • qemu-system-i386 -cdrom kern/CATernel.iso Run as iso
• VirtualBox: CATernel can be ran over VirtualBox only using cd iso image, set it as CD Drive and start live session

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How to Contribute

• Contribution: requires good familarity with OS concepts and implementation. Documentation available on CATernel-Doc repo, you can contribute as far as you can understand the project structure. You'll be using:-
• Git [Obviously]
• x86 emulator (bochs/qemu)
• gnu autotools, binutils

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To be supported

• Refer to TODO

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Notes

• Please make your commits descriptive.
• http://github.com/SaadTalaat/CATernel-Doc [Documentation]
• http://catreloaded.net [ Organization ]
• http://twitter.com/catreloaded
• http://facebook.com/catreloaded.team
• if you are facing any problem get on IRC (Freenode) channel #CATReloaded.

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Authors

• Saad Talaat saadtalaat[at]gmail[dot]com
• Menna Essa http://twitter.com/MennaEssa