x86 Kernel supporting device drivers, preemptive multitasking, virtual memory protection, threading, and virtual terminals. Written from scratch for CMU 15-410.

During the spring semester of 2020, along with a partner, I wrote an x86 kernel supporting most features necessary for a multitasking OS. We implemented the kernel from scratch in C and x86 assembly.

Features:

• Keyboard, timer, and terminal device drivers
• User/kernel space division and syscall interface
• Process and thread management with fork/exec/wait/thread_fork/exit
• Per-process virtual memory protection with page tables
• Preemptive multitasking and scheduler including preemptible syscalls
• Atomics and synchronization primitives
• User-space threading library
• Virtual/multiplexed terminal devices
• Runs on real hardware
• A few concurrency bugs, but at least they didn’t show up…

Unfortunately, booting it up again would take some build system work that I don’t feel like doing.

However, I found an old work-in-progress screenshot, running on an i5-6400: