kitty

The kitty kernel, maintained by BYUi students

Building

Requisites:

If on windows, Put these precompiled binaries (x86_64) into your path: https://github.com/lordmilko/i686-elf-tools/releases/tag/13.2.0
Install make (chocolatey or mingw for windows)
Install nasm
Install qemu

Make sure that all of the above software is accessible through your shell (put everything in path!)

Run this in the src directory: make run arch=x86 or make run arch=x86_64

Other components included in this repository

x86/x86_64 bootloader

Located in src/x86-boot/, a boot sector written for 32/64 bit x86.

EXT4 filesystem image

Located in src/test/fs_ext4/, this FS image contains just enough to get the operating system running by providing service files that the kernel loads automatically.

License

The kitty kernel utilizes a GNU General Public License. Much of the bootloader code (under x86-boot) is CC0 license and in the public domain.

Before contributing, read the notes on our organizations main page.