About
This is the system documentation of the Ghost operating system.
This project is a hobby operating system for the Intel x86 platform with almost all components written from scratch. The kernel follows a microkernel design. This documentation contains both conceptual and technical details for various parts of the system.
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Note
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This file is supposed to be compiled with AsciiDoctor
(http://asciidoctor.org/), see the script generate.sh.
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Contents
The contents of this documentation are split in sections for each system component. On the top of each page there’s a link back to this home page.
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Tooling section
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Building - toolchain & system building instructions
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Project structure - explains the contents of this repository
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Loader - initial boot code that loads the kernel to higher memory
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Kernel section - documentation about the kernel itself
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Tasking contains everything about processes and threading
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Memory layout explains the memory layout
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libapi - documentation for the kernel API wrapper library
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libc - documentation for the C library implementation
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Ramdisk - documentation about the Ramdisk format & generation
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port.sh - manual for the porting utility
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Spawning - describes process creation