Awesome
Sigma :rocket:
Sigma OS is located in this repo
It is an x86_64 (semi)POSIX (semi)Microkernel but still in early development
How to build
Look in sigma-os/bootstrap
Features
- Full x86_64 long mode support
- Support for a lot of x86(_64) minor features (e.g. SMEP, SMAP, PCID and x2APIC)
- ACPI and AML support with lai
- APIC support + LAPIC timer for scheduling IRQs
- PCI / PCI-Express Configuration space enumeration
- SMP + Simple Queue based scheduler
- Dynamically linked userland backed by mlibc
- Modern disk drivers (AHCI, NVMe)
- Virtualization (AMD-V only for now)
- Protection against malicious drivers with IOMMU (VT-d only for now)
Notes
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Sigma does try to have as much drivers and things in userspace(PL3) but it doesn't attempt to move the memory manager and process management / scheduler out of the kernel.
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When running vbox use the
ich9
chipset, if you must use thepiix3
chipset you need to explicitly enable the HPET with this commandVBoxManage modifyvm <your vm name> --hpet on