Noble Operating System

Noble is a lightweight microkernel and IPC based operating system built with Rust which is not a clone of any existing operating system.

Noble is currently a work in progress in its earliest stages.

Components

Hydrogen Bootloader

A UEFI stub which handles:

• Memory and control register diagnostics
• Virtual memory initialization
• Kernel entry
• (PLANNED) Kernel space binary loading

Helium Kernel

An ELF binary which handles:

• Code execution
• Interrupt handling
• CPU time sharing
• (PLANNED) System call handling
• (PLANNED) Thread management
• (PLANNED) Program loading
• (PLANNED) Inter-process communication handling

Photon Graphics Library

A Rust Library which handles:

• Drawing text to a frame buffer

Gluon Architecture Library

A Rust Library which handles:

• The Noble address space layout
• x86-64:
  • Long mode page tables
  • Segmentation data structures
  • The syscall instruction
  • The PCI bus
  • The PS/2 controller and devices
  • The Programmable Interrupt Controller and Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
• System V:
  • System V object files (ELF files)