FOSD – Framework of Operating System Development
The FOSD(Framework for Operating System Development) Framework is an innovative and flexible framework for operating system development. It strives to provide flexible resources and tools to help developers design, develop, and deploy operating systems efficiently and effectively. The framework is intended to support various architectures and provide corresponding build systems that facilitate the overall development of the operating system. It gives the already-implemented build system for each architecture that can automatically detect and compile user's source code and create a full…
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FOSD is a framework for operating system development that provides tools and resources to help developers design and deploy operating systems across multiple architectures. It includes pre-built build systems that automatically detect and compile source code into complete operating systems with appropriate bootloaders, and offers a hardware abstraction layer to reduce the burden of writing device drivers. The framework is currently in early development stages with initial support for x86 architecture.
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The FOSD(Framework for Operating System Development) Framework is an innovative and flexible framework for operating system development. It strives to provide flexible resources and tools to help developers design, develop, and deploy operating systems efficiently and effectively. The framework is intended to support various architectures and provide corresponding build systems that facilitate the overall development of the operating system. It gives the already-implemented build system for each architecture that can automatically detect and compile user's source code and create a full operating system with proper bootloader(that's suitable with architecture.) The framework also provides HAL(Hardware Abstraction Layer) that can remedy the difficulty of having to develop all the device drivers for every hardware. Although currently, we're in the early development stage of only having x86 architecture kernel that can barely print "Hello, world", we are planning to implement from the fundamental framework features like interrupt system or basic print system to the file system interface, complicated device drivers(corresponding to the architecture) or even feature for task management. The ultimate goal is to make the operating system development easy and efficient for everybody!
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