chyyuu/os_kernel_lab

Features

• Operating System Development - Builds and tests core operating system components like memory management, process scheduling, and file systems from scratch.
• RISC-V Kernel Implementations - Provides an educational framework for building and testing operating system kernels on RISC-V and x86 architectures.
• Hardware Abstraction Layers - Decouples core system logic from specific processor architectures by providing a unified interface for hardware interactions.
• Kernel Development - Provides core system primitives including process management, memory allocation, and file storage for kernel development.
• Educational Kernel Projects - Offers a collection of laboratory exercises for implementing core operating system primitives like process scheduling and memory management.
• Memory Management - Manages dynamic memory allocation and virtual address spaces for kernel operations and system processes.
• Kernel Memory Implementations - Implements virtual memory paging and address space isolation for kernel and user-space operations.
• Kernel Process Internals - Manages process lifecycles, thread support, and preemptive scheduling within the kernel.
• System Call Interfaces - Provides a secure boundary between user-space applications and kernel-level services through controlled software interrupts.
• Virtual Memory Mapping - Maps logical memory addresses to physical hardware locations to provide isolated and protected address spaces.
• Round-Robin Schedulers - Coordinates task execution using preemptive round-robin scheduling to ensure fair processor time distribution.
• Kernel Build Systems - Transforms source code into executable machine instructions compatible with target hardware architectures using specialized optimization utilities.
• Multi-Architecture Builds - Automates cross-compilation for multiple CPU targets using specialized toolchains and linker scripts.
• Cross-Platform Execution - Supports execution on both virtualized emulators and physical hardware platforms to ensure consistent performance and compatibility.
• Bare Metal Orchestration - Supports direct execution on physical hardware platforms to validate performance and functionality in real-world environments.
• Embedded Systems Education - Provides learning resources for implementing fundamental system software and hardware interactions in resource-constrained environments.
• RISC-V Software Development - Develops and debugs low-level software specifically designed to run on RISC-V hardware architectures and instruction sets.
• Bare Metal Deployment Environments - Executes compiled code directly on physical hardware platforms to validate system performance and low-level functionality.
• Custom Firmware Bootloaders - Initializes the hardware environment and loads the kernel image into memory during the system startup sequence.
• System Boot Initializers - Prepares the execution environment by loading firmware and establishing essential hardware-level interactions during system startup.
• Bare Metal Development - Provides a set of tools and source code for developing software that executes directly on hardware or within emulated environments.
• Hardware Emulators - Simulates processor and peripheral device behavior to verify software logic without requiring access to physical hardware.
• System Emulators - Simulates complex hardware environments to verify and debug kernel logic before deploying software to physical processor targets.

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