Roadmap

Here is the list of the things that are missing and in what order they will be done:

Kernel

  • [x] Sierra Libc in freestanding mode. (partially)
  • [x] Multiboot
  • [x] Terminal Interface (TTY)
  • [x] Creating a Build System
  • [x] Stack Smash Protector (not doing that anymore)
  • [ ] GDT and Interrupts (IDT & IRQ as well)
  • [ ] Memory management:
  • [ ] Paging
  • [ ] Memory Allocation Functions
  • [ ] Kernel Heap
  • [ ] Virtual Memory Objects
  • [ ] Multitasking
  • [ ] Basic Time Driver
  • [ ] Keyboard Driver
  • [ ] Initial Ramdisk (initrd)
  • [ ] VFS
  • [ ] Filesystem support (ext2)
  • [ ] Internal Kernel Debugger (not sure if I will do it)

User Space

  • [ ] Sierra Libc in hosted mode (Will feature a basic POSIX API with the needed features only) (Porting Newlib is also an option).
  • [ ] TSS
  • [ ] User Mode
  • [ ] ELF program loading driver.
  • [ ] System Calls
  • [ ] Simple Shell
  • [ ] OS specific toolchain

Extras

  • [ ] Extended Sierra Libc (More POSIX support)
  • [ ] Extended Time Driver
  • [ ] Threads (pthreads)
  • [ ] Threads Local Storage
  • [ ] Symmetric Multiprocessing
  • [ ] Secondary Storage (USB, Floppy, Hard drives, etc)
  • [ ] Sound Driver
  • [ ] Real Graphics Driver
  • [ ] GUI

Bootstrapping

  • [ ] Porting Software (GCC, Binutils, bash, Make, etc..)
  • [ ] Port Build System
  • [ ] Become Self Hosted
Goal Date Safety Result
Finish the whole kernel checklist Late february 2017 Reduce the tasks to be done (move them to extras) -

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