x86-bare-metal-examples/bibliography.md

Bibliography

• https://github.com/cirosantilli/assembly-cheat Information about assembly in general.

  README.md explain make qemu

• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/22054578/run-a-program-without-an-operating-system

Small projects

• https://github.com/programble/bare-metal-tetris tested on Ubuntu 14.04. Just works.

  Has Multiboot and El Torito. Uses custom linker script.

  Almost entirely in C -nostdlib, with very few inline asm commands, and a small assembly entry point. So a good tutorial in how to do the bridge.

• https://github.com/arjun024/mkeykernel, https://github.com/arjun024/mkernel

  Worked, but bad build system: not Makefile or .gitignore.

The following did not work on my machine out of the box:

• https://github.com/apparentlymart/ToyOS
• https://github.com/rde1024/toyos

Multi collaborator websites

• osdev.org is a major source for this.

  • http://wiki.osdev.org/C%2B%2B_Bare_Bones
  • http://wiki.osdev.org/Text_UI
  • http://wiki.osdev.org/GUI

• http://www.osdever.net/

• https://courses.engr.illinois.edu/ece390/books/labmanual/index.html Illinois course from 2004

Progressive tutorials

• http://www.jamesmolloy.co.uk/tutorial_html/index.html

  Highly recommended.

  Multiboot based kernels of increasing complexity, one example builds on the last one. Non DRY as a result.

  Cleaned up source code: https://github.com/cirosantilli/jamesmolloy-kernel-development-tutorials

  Well known bugs: That's what happens when you don't use GitHub.

  Good tutorials, author seems to master the subject.

  But he could learn more about version control and build automation: source code inside ugly tar.gz with output files.

• https://sourceforge.net/p/oszur11/code/ci/master/tree/

  GitHub mirror: https://github.com/cirosantilli/oszur11-operating-system-examples

  Several examples of increasing complexity. Found at: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7130726/writing-a-hello-world-kernel

  Just works, but examples are non-minimal, lots of code duplication and blobs. There must be around 20 El Torito blobs in that repo.

  Multiboot based.

• https://github.com/SamyPesse/How-to-Make-a-Computer-Operating-System

• http://www.brokenthorn.com/Resources/OSDevIndex.html

• http://skelix.net/skelixos/index_en.html

  Cleaned up version: https://github.com/cirosantilli/skelix-os

  Not tested yet.

  GAS based, no multiboot used.

Actually useful

These are not meant as learning resources but rather as useful programs:

• https://github.com/scanlime/metalkit A more automated / general bare metal compilation system. Untested, but looks promising.

Other archs

For when we decide to port this tutorial:

ARM:

• https://github.com/bravegnu/gnu-eprog

Raspberry PI:

• https://github.com/dwelch67/raspberrypi