bit-turtle/roxus

A UEFI Operating System

roxus

A UEFI Operating System

Installing

• Using Roxus CI Build
  1. Download Roxus Build.zip from the most recent successful Roxus CI build
  2. Create an EFI partition on a flash drive using the FAT file system mkfs.fat -F32 /dev/drivename
  3. Copy the contents of Roxus Build.zip into the partition
• Using Local Roxus Build
  • Create an EFI partition on a flash drive using the FAT file system mkfs.fat -F32 /dev/drivename
  • Copy the files from the .\root directory to the EFI partition .\write.sh \dev\drivename

Building

• Install tup, clang, and lld
• tup (Compiles quite quickly)
• Builds for x86_64 and aarch64 by default (32-bit UEFI seems uncommon)

Test (Emulation)

• Install QEMU x86_64
• test.sh (builds and runs on qemu)

I/O Features

I/O Feature	Current Implementation	Details	Future Implementation
Console Output	Simple Text Output Protocol	With ANSI Escape Code Processing	Custom Text Rendering with Simple Text Output Protocol fallback
Keyboard Input	Simple Text Input Protocol
Graphics Output	Graphics Output Protocol BLT	Custom Image Format	Graphics Output Protocol BLT with Console fallback
Mouse Input	Not Implemented		Simple Pointer Protocol
Sound Output	Not Implemented	UEFI Has no Sound Protocol	Custom Universal Sound Driver