Pirix is an attempt to create a microkernel-based, POSIX-compatible operating system.
So far, the following features are more or less stable:
- memory management with paging
- interrupt handling
- multitasking
The following features are currently under development:
- inter-process communication
- i386
- ARM
- QEMU Integrator/CP
- Raspberry Pi
In order to build Pirix you have to install the system-specific toolchain. A script to build the toolchain is available on https://github.com/pirix/pirix-toolchain/. To compile and install the toolchain, switch to the pirix-toolchain directory and run the following commands:
$ ./prepare.sh
$ ./build.sh
# ./install.sh
Now you are ready to compile the kernel. Pirix uses
SCons which is wrapped by a Makefile. To start the
build process simply type make in the source directory.
If everything went well and you have qemu and grub2 installed you
can just type make qemu to give Pirix a test run.
Copyright (C) 2012-2013 Thomas Gatzweiler
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