kern
changeset 92:b4264d173aae
fixed the readme file
author | John Tsiombikas <nuclear@member.fsf.org> |
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date | Thu, 17 Apr 2014 12:30:02 +0300 |
parents | f83f50c17c3b |
children | 921a264297a4 |
files | README |
diffstat | 1 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) [+] |
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1.1 --- a/README Fri Dec 09 15:29:54 2011 +0200 1.2 +++ b/README Thu Apr 17 12:30:02 2014 +0300 1.3 @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ 1.4 -Article 1 source code 1.5 ---------------------- 1.6 +A minimal UNIX kernel project for x86 PCs 1.7 +----------------------------------------- 1.8 Author: John Tsiombikas <nuclear@member.fsf.org> 1.9 1.10 License: GNU GPL v3 or any later version published by the free software 1.11 @@ -7,9 +7,17 @@ 1.12 1.13 About 1.14 ----- 1.15 -This is the supplemental source code for the first part of the introduction to 1.16 -kernel development articles. It deals with booting up from a multiboot-compliant 1.17 -boot loader and using the VGA for text output. 1.18 +When the editor of the Linux Inside magazine asked me to write for his newborn 1.19 +magazine, I leapt at the chance to start a series of introductory articles on 1.20 +kernel programming. 1.21 +For this reason I started writing a minimal, UNIX-like, operating system kernel 1.22 +from scratch. It's not complete yet, but it already has user/kernel protection 1.23 +levels, a virtual memory system with copy-on-write, processes, task switching, 1.24 +etc. 1.25 + 1.26 +The articles themselves (only in Greek at the moment unfortunately) can be found 1.27 +at: http://nuclear.mutantstargoat.com/articles/kerneldev/index.html 1.28 + 1.29 1.30 Compiling & Running 1.31 -------------------