FrostWing Operating System

Welcome to FrostWing, a lightweight and flexible operating system designed for x86_64 platform. This README will guide you through the process of understanding the overall concept of the FrostWing Operating System.

Note

To get a really good overview of this repository please visit https://githubtracker.com/Frost-Wing/osdev

Table of Contents

• FrostWing Operating System
  • Table of Contents
  • Gallery
  • Currently working Features
    • Getting started
    • Hardware/Software (Emulator) Requirements
      • Minimum Requirements (BIOS)
      • Minimum Requirements (UEFI)
      • Recommended Requirements (BIOS)
      • Recommended Requirements (UEFI)
    • Booting to real machine
  • Contributing
  • License
  • FrostWing Team

Gallery

Refer the wiki for Gallary.*

Currently working Features

• Interrupts
• ACPI
  • Shutdown
  • Reboot
• AHCI
  • Detecting Disks
• CPU-ID
• GDT
  • BIOS
  • UEFI
• TSS
• Hardware abstraction layer (HAL)
• Memory
  • Heap memory allocator
  • Paging
• PCI
  • Probing
  • Initializing required drivers
  • Storing the devices list
• Timing
  • Real Time Clock
  • Programmable Interval Timer
• Secure Boot
  • UEFI
  • BIOS
• PS/2
  • Keyboard
  • Mouse
• Graphics
  • OpenGL Renderer
  • Terminal emulator
  • Graphics card support
• Networking
  • Ethernet
    • RTL Cards
      • RTL-8139 Networking
• Serial communications (with Arduino, NodeMCU, Sparkfun, etc.)
• Audio
  • PC Speaker

AND MUCH MORE...

Getting started

Please refer wiki for steps for compiling*

Hardware/Software (Emulator) Requirements

Minimum Requirements (BIOS)

• CPU Currently any x86_64 proccessor
• RAM 75 MB
• Storage Nothing required yet.
• Graphics Only Framebuffer.

Minimum Requirements (UEFI)

• CPU Currently any x86_64 proccessor
• RAM 170 MB
• Storage Nothing required yet.
• Graphics Only Framebuffer.

Recommended Requirements (BIOS)

• CPU Currently any x86_64 proccessor
• RAM 128 MB
• Storage Nothing required yet.
• Graphics Integrated Graphics

Recommended Requirements (UEFI)

• CPU Currently any x86_64 proccessor
• RAM 256 MB
• Storage Nothing required yet.
• Graphics Integrated Graphics

Booting to real machine

This operating system is real machine bootable and tested under the following circumstances:

Boot Disk information:

• Using 32 GB Pendrive
• GPT Disk (MBR Also works)
• Both BIOS / UEFI supported
• Ventoy loaded
• FrostWing.iso in the root directory

Important

It is recommended to use Ventoy because you will not have the risk of flashing and failing of USB-Drives.

Contributing

We welcome contributions to FrostWing! If you'd like to contribute code, report bugs, or suggest enhancements, please check our contribution guidelines.

License

FrostWing is open-source software released under the CC0-1.0 License. Feel free to use, modify, and distribute it as per the terms of this license.

FrostWing Team

• Owner, founder & "The Dev" - Pradosh (@PradoshGame)
• OpenGL & Head Developer - GAMINGNOOB (@GAMINGNOOBdev) (inactive)
• Sources
  • Flanterm from Mintsuki
  • ACPI and Shutdown from Mintsuki
  • Floating Point Arithmetic from Kevin Lange
  • UEFI Binary from BlankOn
  • Interrupts from MakenOS Kernel