Excellent list of articles. I suggest people to look more into the author's CollapseOS, their research into a post-collapse minimal operating system to bootstrap computing anew.
OSDev is such a fascinating and lost topic, due to how niche it is and how computers and hardware have become a complicated mass of abstractions only a few have full access to. Writing a OS that talks with 90% of your hardware is relatively doable, writing a GPU driver is pretty much impossible these days unless you are the manufacturer.
We need more research into alternative computing. We need to move past UNIX which has served us well but it is a local maxima, not the best we can do. We need to return to the roots somewhat (maximecb's uvm, Devine Lu Linvega's uxn, etc.) to find a way forward.
I started with OsDev at 16 [1], had to find a regular boring job for the rest of my career, but my goal right now is to bootstrap my own small "lifestyle" business to find money, time and freedom to explore the world of bare metal alternative OS again. Something Lispy and Smalltalky to power the entire thing. I wrote a bit about it in my website. [2][3]
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Sorry for the tangent. I love OSDev. Many of you would too, I bet.
OSDev is such a fascinating and lost topic, due to how niche it is and how computers and hardware have become a complicated mass of abstractions only a few have full access to. Writing a OS that talks with 90% of your hardware is relatively doable, writing a GPU driver is pretty much impossible these days unless you are the manufacturer.
We need more research into alternative computing. We need to move past UNIX which has served us well but it is a local maxima, not the best we can do. We need to return to the roots somewhat (maximecb's uvm, Devine Lu Linvega's uxn, etc.) to find a way forward.
I started with OsDev at 16 [1], had to find a regular boring job for the rest of my career, but my goal right now is to bootstrap my own small "lifestyle" business to find money, time and freedom to explore the world of bare metal alternative OS again. Something Lispy and Smalltalky to power the entire thing. I wrote a bit about it in my website. [2][3]
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Sorry for the tangent. I love OSDev. Many of you would too, I bet.
1: https://github.com/1player/klesh
2: https://combo.cc/posts/in-search-of-the-holy-grail/
3: https://combo.cc/posts/what-i-would-like-to-see-in-a-modern-...