Resources

This page maintains a list of resources related to operating system development.

This page is currently undergoing a reorganization. Read the talkpage for more info

Operating System Development

• Bran's Kernel Development tutorial
• Bonafide OS Development
• The Operating System Resource Center
• John Fine's Home Page
• Write Your Own Operating System
• How to Write an Operating System
• NeuralDK OSDev Tuts
• Shunya OS Development
• TAJ OS Development
• BrokenThorn OS Development Tutorials
• OSDCOM
• Kernel 101
• The OsLib

Hardware Specifications

• Pierre's Library
• Ace OS 'specifications' page
• stockpile of hard-to-find datasheets

Processors

• Intel Manuals
• Intel IA-32 Manuals

Human Input Devices

• Serial Mouse
• more about COMx devices

Video

• official VESA & VBE website

Storage

• official ATA working group
• another ATA/ATAPI website, includes reference driver
• an introduction to ATA/ATAPI commands. It contains a couple of ASM examples to read sectors and identify drives.

Buses

• official USB developers docs
• more USB info
• USB OHCI
• USB EHCI
• OHCI for FireWire
• OHCI mirror

Software Specifications

• Ralf Brown's Interrupt List

Other Specifications

• stockpile of technical documents (partly in Russian)

Source Code

• OSD Code Snippet Index
• stockpile of documents at singlix.org
• a reference implementation for malloc()

Sample Kernels

• Kernels documented in the wiki

Small Kernels

• OSD Kernels
• PM Kernels
• Selection from Bonafide
• DennisOS
• BOS
• LibOSDK
• LSE/OS
• DegenerateOS

Larger Kernels

• BCOS
• Tabos
• Mobius
• Cosmos
• Clicker
• MenuetOS
• Daidalos
• BlueIllusionOS
• Agnix Kernel
• SolOS
• Minix 3
• AMOS
• OSKit

Non-hobby Kernels

• Linux
• OpenBSD
• L4

University Courses

• Advanced Operating Systems (NYU)
• Operating System Engineering (MIT)

working set

My administrative section (todolist) during the merge. - Combuster 04:58, 18 September 2007 (CDT)

dead links

• Advanced OS Development, includes 5 labs showing pmode, virtual memory, loading and running programs, etc. (UCLA)
• Kernelguys.org Kernel related resources collection
• interrupts and POST variables list, an alternative to ralf brown's interrupt list
• MS mouse protocol
• how mice work in general
• serial mouse demo program
• bkerndev

temp

• [Forum:3888 PS/2 mice]
• [Forum:7336 PS2 mouse driver]
• [Forum:3924 collected links about Ultra DMA, on ATA drives and how PCI configuration comes.]
• [Forum:4737 quick overview of what realtime Operating Systems are (really)]
• Miscellaneous Code