I am trying to write a kernel purely in assembly language. How do i go 'bout the development environment and general setup that lets me control what i want it to do?
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A:
osdev.org should have all you need.
This website provides information about the creation of operating systems and serves as a community for those people interested in OS creation
To clear it up a little more, apart from all the resources and information on the site, there are two assembly "starter tutorials":
From there its really up to you to explore the wiki more, it has everything one needs, in one basic form or another
Necrolis
2010-10-02 21:37:10
I am well-versed in C, C++, etc, but need to write a kernel for core hardware interaction. I know this is not too high a goal. Please DarkDust, the answer is important to me. If anyone knows what i need to do, i'd appreciate it. Do not hold back details as i am trying to add to already-gotten info.
ManX
2010-10-02 22:36:39
The osdev.org site seems to focus on C to write an OS (i hope i'm wrong). I am trying to write the kernel purely in ASM.
ManX
2010-10-02 22:41:08
Yes dmckee, the answer to your questions is Yes.
ManX
2010-10-02 23:01:56
Thanks Grizzly, I don't have a prticular ASM to program in but am trying to decide which course to go. What i need is to interact with hardware directly (primarily video) so that programs could (for example) draw graphics through my layer. This is only an example and i don't want to write a device driver since it would be subject to an existing OS. Basically, I want to interface directly with hardware (video, printer, speaker, etc) so that other programs could do so through my layer.
ManX
2010-10-02 23:11:15
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dmckee
2010-10-02 23:31:45