Fusion OS

Fusion is a hobby operating system for x86-64 implemented in Nim. I'm documenting the process of building it at: https://0xc0ffee.netlify.app.

Screenshots

UEFI Bootloader

GUI (Note: This screenshot is from the graphics branch, which is still a work-in-progress.)

Booting and Running the Kernel

Features

The following features are currently implemented:

• UEFI Bootloader
• Memory Management
  • Single Address Space
  • Physical Memory Manager
  • Virtual Memory Manager
  • Higher Half Kernel
• Task Management
  • Kernel Tasks
  • User Mode Tasks
  • Preemptive Multitasking
  • Priority-based Scheduling
  • ELF Loader
• System Calls
  • System Call Interface
  • SYSCALL/SYSRET
  • User Mode Library
• IPC
  • Synchronization Primitives
  • Channel-based IPC
  • Message Passing
• Hardware
  • Timer Interrupts
  • PCI Device Enumeration
  • Bochs Graphics Adapter Driver

Planned

• Capability-based Security
• Event-based Task State Machines
• Demand Paging
• Disk I/O
• File System
• Keyboard/Mouse Input
• Shell
• GUI
• Networking

Building

To build Fusion, you need to have the following dependencies installed:

• Nim
• LLVM (clang and lld)
• Just

Build Fusion with the following command:

just build

Running

Fusion currently runs on QEMU, so you'll need to install it first. Launch Fusion with the following command:

just run

License

MIT