Versatile project

News

15/03/2010:Website update.
Currently working on threading.

About

The purpose of the project is to make an operating system, called Versatile, with a single address space design, orthogonal persistence and a query-based "file system".
For the moment the development is only targeted for IA-32 architecture.
The code, mostly in C, is distributed under MIT License.

Features

Hardware

• IA-32:
  • MMU: GDT, Paging
  • Interrupts: IDT, Exceptions, IRQ, PIC
• Input/Output:
  • I/O Ports
  • VGA screen
  • Keyboard
• Time:
  • RTC

Memory manager

• Physical pages management
• Virtual pages management
• Paging
• Memory allocation/deallocation

Minimal hardware requirement

PC

Processor: i386 or upper

RAM memory: 4 MB

Source code

You can view the code by browsing our Git repository.

Testing

Step 1: Create a directory

$ mkdir versatile

$ cd versatile

Step 2: Get versatile sources

$ git clone git://versatile.git.sourceforge.net/gitroot/versatile/versatile

Step 3: Compile

$ make all

Step 4: Run with qemu (by using 4Mb of RAM and the generated ISO image)

$ qemu -m 4 -cdrom versatile.iso

Konstantin Tcholokachvili (tcholoka AT gmail DOT com) - Last update: 16/03/2010