LCARS OS Development Blog

Made a little bit of progress on the code base in the last few days.  Not much really.  Just moved a copy of the Minix source over to the trunk and cleaned out the parts I wasn’t going to be using.  Given the type of interface this is suppose to have, the man pages and *nix commands were moot.  Next few steps is to get it compiled and a test boot of the kernel in a safe environment and make sure a different kind of shell can be loaded.  As I think about the OS, it has dawned on me that the only use for the kernel in this case is to boot the computer, turn on 64 bit mode and load the shell.  The shell will load the drivers and everything else.

In essence, turning the shell into the real kernel.  might change that before I get to far into development to something that might be better suited.

Hmm….since this is going to be a client server environment, going to have to make 2 kinds of shells.  one purely server side, the other that loads up via a BOOTP or similar.  That would probably be better.  Server only needs network and IO support anyways.  Everything else can be inputed client side.  Now to just get my hands on one of these.