Kernel in D

ed via Digitalmars-d-learn digitalmars-d-learn at puremagic.com
Sat May 31 05:57:44 PDT 2014


On Saturday, 31 May 2014 at 07:28:32 UTC, Mineko wrote:
> So, I've gotten interested in kernel programming in D.. And as 
> much as I like C/C++, I wanna try innovating, I'm aware that 
> phobos/gc and any OS-specific issues are going to be a problem, 
> but I'm willing to implement them into the kernel itself.
>
> So, I guess what I'm asking is this: What should I look out 
> for, what should I avoid, and what should I use to my advantage?
>
> I'm not expecting this kernel to be Linux right off the bat, 
> but I would like to see how far D can go with this.
>
> Any ideas? :P

I wrote a little kernel a while back that all started when I read 
this wiki page:

http://wiki.osdev.org/D_Bare_Bones

You may be beyond this already as it is pretty basic 
stuff...still it's good if you're just learning like I am. There 
are some articles that helped me fix the 64-bit bootloader issues 
I was having as well.

Cheers,
ed



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