Operating system development

This page aims at referencing here resources and documentation about operating system development with Rust.

Community

• #rust-osdev on irc.mozilla.org

Projects

Here is a short list of some OS projects in Rust. Feel free to add your own:

• LeoTestard/Quasar
• pcmattman/rustic
• pczarn/rustboot
• wbthomason/ironkernel, a fork of rustboot.
• thiagopnts/rustico, yet another tiny 32 bits kernel
• Arcterus/kRnel
• cmr/cmoss, a rather inactive OS project
• mahrz/rv6, a port of xv6 an educational unix clone by MIT (doesn't do much yet, currently inactive)
• eholk/Boot2Rust - A UEFI application written in Rust.
• [uutils/coreutils] (https://github.com/uutils/coreutils) - coreutils written in Rust.
• [vertexclique/trafo] (https://github.com/vertexclique/trafo) - util-linux written in Rust.
• [hackndev/zinc] (https://github.com/hackndev/zinc) - bare metal stack for ARM, currently targeting LPC1768 and STM32F4.
• mvdnes/element76 - A small i686 kernel

Resources and docs

Contents to come..

• The OS-dev wiki
• ARM Infocenter
• X86 Opcode and Instruction Reference
• Context Switching on X86
• Rust's __morestack implementation