Closes #53.

This PR adds a Brewfile which, when used with Homebrew's brew bundle command, will install all the tools needed to build intermezzOS. I've also updated the documentation to match.

error: linking with `cc` failed: exit code: 1
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  = note: "cc" "-Wl,--as-needed" "-Wl,-z,noexecstack" "-m64" "-L" "/home/steve/.multirust/toolchains/nightly-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/rustlib/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib" "/home/steve/src/intermezzOS/kernel/target/debug/deps/intermezzos-f72332709373820b.0.o" "-o" "/home/steve/src/intermezzOS/kernel/target/debug/deps/intermezzos-f72332709373820b" "-Wl,--gc-sections" "-pie" "-nodefaultlibs" "-L" "/home/steve/src/intermezzOS/kernel/target/debug/deps" "-L" "/home/steve/src/intermezzOS/kernel/target/debug/build/intermezzos-ae49b6d4bcb27c57/out" "-L" "/home/steve/.multirust/toolchains/nightly-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/rustlib/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib" "-Wl,-Bstatic" "-Wl,--whole-archive" "-l" "boot" "-Wl,--no-whole-archive" "-Wl,-Bdynamic" "/home/steve/src/intermezzOS/kernel/target/debug/deps/libconsole.rlib" "/home/steve/.multirust/toolchains/nightly-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/rustlib/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/libtest-411f48d3.rlib" "/home/steve/.multirust/toolchains/nightly-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/rustlib/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/libgetopts-411f48d3.rlib" "/home/steve/src/intermezzOS/kernel/target/debug/deps/libspin-d054d2d05cd86dc1.rlib" "/home/steve/.multirust/toolchains/nightly-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/rustlib/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/libterm-411f48d3.rlib" "/home/steve/.multirust/toolchains/nightly-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/rustlib/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/libstd-411f48d3.rlib" "/home/steve/.multirust/toolchains/nightly-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/rustlib/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/libpanic_unwind-411f48d3.rlib" "/home/steve/.multirust/toolchains/nightly-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/rustlib/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/libunwind-411f48d3.rlib" "/home/steve/.multirust/toolchains/nightly-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/rustlib/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/librand-411f48d3.rlib" "/home/steve/.multirust/toolchains/nightly-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/rustlib/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/libcollections-411f48d3.rlib" "/home/steve/.multirust/toolchains/nightly-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/rustlib/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/liballoc-411f48d3.rlib" "/home/steve/.multirust/toolchains/nightly-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/rustlib/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/liballoc_jemalloc-411f48d3.rlib" "/home/steve/.multirust/toolchains/nightly-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/rustlib/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/liblibc-411f48d3.rlib" "/home/steve/.multirust/toolchains/nightly-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/rustlib/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/librustc_unicode-411f48d3.rlib" "/home/steve/.multirust/toolchains/nightly-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/rustlib/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/libcore-411f48d3.rlib" "/home/steve/.multirust/toolchains/nightly-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/rustlib/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/libcompiler_builtins-411f48d3.rlib" "-l" "dl" "-l" "pthread" "-l" "gcc_s" "-l" "pthread" "-l" "c" "-l" "m" "-l" "rt" "-l" "util"
  = note: /usr/bin/ld: /home/steve/src/intermezzOS/kernel/target/debug/build/intermezzos-ae49b6d4bcb27c57/out/libboot.a(boot.o): relocation R_X86_64_32 against `.bss' can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC
/home/steve/src/intermezzOS/kernel/target/debug/build/intermezzos-ae49b6d4bcb27c57/out/libboot.a(boot.o): error adding symbols: Bad value


error: linking with `cc` failed: exit code: 1
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  = note: "cc" "-Wl,--as-needed" "-Wl,-z,noexecstack" "-m64" "-L" "/home/steve/.multirust/toolchains/nightly-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/rustlib/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib" "/home/steve/src/intermezzOS/kernel/target/debug/intermezzos-b45e4ac16f1d637d.0.o" "-o" "/home/steve/src/intermezzOS/kernel/target/debug/intermezzos-b45e4ac16f1d637d" "-Wl,--gc-sections" "-pie" "-nodefaultlibs" "-L" "/home/steve/src/intermezzOS/kernel/target/debug/deps" "-L" "/home/steve/src/intermezzOS/kernel/target/debug/build/intermezzos-ae49b6d4bcb27c57/out" "-L" "/home/steve/.multirust/toolchains/nightly-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/rustlib/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib" "-Wl,-Bstatic" "-Wl,-Bdynamic" "/home/steve/src/intermezzOS/kernel/target/debug/deps/librlibc-975886925ea7e4d8.rlib" "/home/steve/.multirust/toolchains/nightly-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/rustlib/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/libtest-411f48d3.rlib" "/home/steve/.multirust/toolchains/nightly-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/rustlib/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/libgetopts-411f48d3.rlib" "/home/steve/.multirust/toolchains/nightly-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/rustlib/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/libterm-411f48d3.rlib" "/home/steve/src/intermezzOS/kernel/target/debug/deps/libintermezzos.rlib" "/home/steve/src/intermezzOS/kernel/target/debug/deps/libconsole.rlib" "/home/steve/.multirust/toolchains/nightly-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/rustlib/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/libstd-411f48d3.rlib" "/home/steve/.multirust/toolchains/nightly-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/rustlib/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/libpanic_unwind-411f48d3.rlib" "/home/steve/.multirust/toolchains/nightly-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/rustlib/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/libunwind-411f48d3.rlib" "/home/steve/.multirust/toolchains/nightly-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/rustlib/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/librand-411f48d3.rlib" "/home/steve/.multirust/toolchains/nightly-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/rustlib/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/libcollections-411f48d3.rlib" "/home/steve/.multirust/toolchains/nightly-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/rustlib/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/liballoc-411f48d3.rlib" "/home/steve/.multirust/toolchains/nightly-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/rustlib/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/liballoc_jemalloc-411f48d3.rlib" "/home/steve/.multirust/toolchains/nightly-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/rustlib/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/liblibc-411f48d3.rlib" "/home/steve/.multirust/toolchains/nightly-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/rustlib/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/librustc_unicode-411f48d3.rlib" "/home/steve/src/intermezzOS/kernel/target/debug/deps/libspin-d054d2d05cd86dc1.rlib" "/home/steve/.multirust/toolchains/nightly-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/rustlib/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/libcore-411f48d3.rlib" "/home/steve/.multirust/toolchains/nightly-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/rustlib/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/libcompiler_builtins-411f48d3.rlib" "-l" "dl" "-l" "pthread" "-l" "gcc_s" "-l" "pthread" "-l" "c" "-l" "m" "-l" "rt" "-l" "util"
  = note: /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/6/../../../x86_64-linux-gnu/Scrt1.o: In function `_start':
(.text+0x20): undefined reference to `main'
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status

We don't currently have any unit tests here, so it's not a problem, but we should figure this out and fix it.

Someone on IRC told me that the PIC stuff would be fixed if we used gcc to assemble rather than nasm. Unsure though.

So I was playing around with this stuff, and it didn't compiled once. I installed everything thats needed, but which libary do I miss when compiling it?

The output:

daniel@daniel-8o23dad:~/projects/os/kernel$ RUST_BACKTRACE=1 xargo build --release --target x86_64-unknown-intermezzos-gnu --verbose
+ "rustc" "--print" "sysroot"
+ "rustc" "--print" "target-list"
+ RUSTFLAGS="--sysroot /home/daniel/.xargo"
+ "cargo" "build" "--release" "--target" "x86_64-unknown-intermezzos-gnu" "--verbose"
       Fresh console v0.1.0 (file:///home/daniel/projects/os/kernel/console)
       Fresh byteorder v0.5.3
       Fresh raw-cpuid v2.0.1
       Fresh libc v0.2.16
       Fresh rustc-serialize v0.3.19
       Fresh bitflags v0.7.0
       Fresh rlibc v1.0.0
       Fresh phf_shared v0.7.16
       Fresh num-traits v0.1.36
       Fresh spin v0.4.4
       Fresh keyboard v0.1.0 (file:///home/daniel/projects/os/kernel/keyboard)
   Compiling intermezzos v0.1.0 (file:///home/daniel/projects/os/kernel)
       Fresh rand v0.3.14
       Fresh csv v0.14.7
       Fresh phf v0.7.16
     Running `/home/daniel/projects/os/kernel/target/release/build/intermezzos-9f5c58ede529b3e6/build-script-build`
       Fresh num-complex v0.1.35
       Fresh num-integer v0.1.32
       Fresh lazy_static v0.2.1
       Fresh phf_generator v0.7.16
       Fresh num-bigint v0.1.35
       Fresh num-iter v0.1.32
       Fresh phf_codegen v0.7.16
       Fresh num-rational v0.1.35
       Fresh num v0.1.36
       Fresh serde v0.6.15
       Fresh serde_json v0.6.1
       Fresh x86 v0.8.1
       Fresh pic v0.1.0 (file:///home/daniel/projects/os/kernel/pic)
       Fresh interrupts v0.1.0 (file:///home/daniel/projects/os/kernel/interrupts)
     Running `rustc --crate-name intermezzos src/lib.rs --crate-type lib --emit=dep-info,link -C opt-level=3 -C panic=abort -C metadata=a5f8d0c159026232 -C extra-filename=-a5f8d0c159026232 --out-dir /home/daniel/projects/os/kernel/target/x86_64-unknown-intermezzos-gnu/release/deps --target x86_64-unknown-intermezzos-gnu -L dependency=/home/daniel/projects/os/kernel/target/x86_64-unknown-intermezzos-gnu/release/deps -L dependency=/home/daniel/projects/os/kernel/target/release/deps --extern spin=/home/daniel/projects/os/kernel/target/x86_64-unknown-intermezzos-gnu/release/deps/libspin-2e95bf66a70d82f7.rlib --extern pic=/home/daniel/projects/os/kernel/target/x86_64-unknown-intermezzos-gnu/release/deps/libpic-e52c5dc844b294ba.rlib --extern rlibc=/home/daniel/projects/os/kernel/target/x86_64-unknown-intermezzos-gnu/release/deps/librlibc-3d5ca23970e1763b.rlib --extern keyboard=/home/daniel/projects/os/kernel/target/x86_64-unknown-intermezzos-gnu/release/deps/libkeyboard-eab5eb9c2612608d.rlib --extern console=/home/daniel/projects/os/kernel/target/x86_64-unknown-intermezzos-gnu/release/deps/libconsole-898e9b38d65bf2a3.rlib --extern interrupts=/home/daniel/projects/os/kernel/target/x86_64-unknown-intermezzos-gnu/release/deps/libinterrupts-472aab710c3d4eff.rlib --extern x86=/home/daniel/projects/os/kernel/target/x86_64-unknown-intermezzos-gnu/release/deps/libx86-40e865de7e1eb5d8.rlib --extern lazy_static=/home/daniel/projects/os/kernel/target/x86_64-unknown-intermezzos-gnu/release/deps/liblazy_static-f2c83931040bd2fb.rlib --sysroot /home/daniel/.xargo -L native=/home/daniel/projects/os/kernel/target/x86_64-unknown-intermezzos-gnu/release/build/intermezzos-664041d978565111/out -l static=boot`
     Running `rustc --crate-name intermezzos src/main.rs --crate-type bin --emit=dep-info,link -C opt-level=3 -C panic=abort -C metadata=73ba34d58d8c787f -C extra-filename=-73ba34d58d8c787f --out-dir /home/daniel/projects/os/kernel/target/x86_64-unknown-intermezzos-gnu/release/deps --target x86_64-unknown-intermezzos-gnu -L dependency=/home/daniel/projects/os/kernel/target/x86_64-unknown-intermezzos-gnu/release/deps -L dependency=/home/daniel/projects/os/kernel/target/release/deps --extern spin=/home/daniel/projects/os/kernel/target/x86_64-unknown-intermezzos-gnu/release/deps/libspin-2e95bf66a70d82f7.rlib --extern pic=/home/daniel/projects/os/kernel/target/x86_64-unknown-intermezzos-gnu/release/deps/libpic-e52c5dc844b294ba.rlib --extern rlibc=/home/daniel/projects/os/kernel/target/x86_64-unknown-intermezzos-gnu/release/deps/librlibc-3d5ca23970e1763b.rlib --extern keyboard=/home/daniel/projects/os/kernel/target/x86_64-unknown-intermezzos-gnu/release/deps/libkeyboard-eab5eb9c2612608d.rlib --extern console=/home/daniel/projects/os/kernel/target/x86_64-unknown-intermezzos-gnu/release/deps/libconsole-898e9b38d65bf2a3.rlib --extern interrupts=/home/daniel/projects/os/kernel/target/x86_64-unknown-intermezzos-gnu/release/deps/libinterrupts-472aab710c3d4eff.rlib --extern x86=/home/daniel/projects/os/kernel/target/x86_64-unknown-intermezzos-gnu/release/deps/libx86-40e865de7e1eb5d8.rlib --extern lazy_static=/home/daniel/projects/os/kernel/target/x86_64-unknown-intermezzos-gnu/release/deps/liblazy_static-f2c83931040bd2fb.rlib --extern intermezzos=/home/daniel/projects/os/kernel/target/x86_64-unknown-intermezzos-gnu/release/deps/libintermezzos-a5f8d0c159026232.rlib --sysroot /home/daniel/.xargo -L native=/home/daniel/projects/os/kernel/target/x86_64-unknown-intermezzos-gnu/release/build/intermezzos-664041d978565111/out`
warning: unused extern crate
  --> src/main.rs:12:1
   |
12 | extern crate rlibc;
   | ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
   |
   = note: #[warn(unused_extern_crates)] on by default

warning: unused extern crate
  --> src/main.rs:13:1
   |
13 | extern crate spin;
   | ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

warning: unused extern crate
  --> src/main.rs:15:1
   |
15 | extern crate console;
   | ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

error: linking with `gcc` failed: exit code: 1
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  = note: "gcc" "-Wl,--script=layout.ld" "-Wl,--nmagic" "-nostartfiles" "-L" "/home/daniel/.xargo/lib/rustlib/x86_64-unknown-intermezzos-gnu/lib" "/home/daniel/projects/os/kernel/target/x86_64-unknown-intermezzos-gnu/release/deps/intermezzos-73ba34d58d8c787f.0.o" "-o" "/home/daniel/projects/os/kernel/target/x86_64-unknown-intermezzos-gnu/release/deps/intermezzos-73ba34d58d8c787f" "-Wl,--gc-sections" "-nodefaultlibs" "-L" "/home/daniel/projects/os/kernel/target/x86_64-unknown-intermezzos-gnu/release/deps" "-L" "/home/daniel/projects/os/kernel/target/release/deps" "-L" "/home/daniel/projects/os/kernel/target/x86_64-unknown-intermezzos-gnu/release/build/intermezzos-664041d978565111/out" "-L" "/home/daniel/.xargo/lib/rustlib/x86_64-unknown-intermezzos-gnu/lib" "-Wl,-Bstatic" "/home/daniel/projects/os/kernel/target/x86_64-unknown-intermezzos-gnu/release/deps/librlibc-3d5ca23970e1763b.rlib" "/home/daniel/projects/os/kernel/target/x86_64-unknown-intermezzos-gnu/release/deps/libkeyboard-eab5eb9c2612608d.rlib" "/home/daniel/projects/os/kernel/target/x86_64-unknown-intermezzos-gnu/release/deps/liblazy_static-f2c83931040bd2fb.rlib" "/home/daniel/projects/os/kernel/target/x86_64-unknown-intermezzos-gnu/release/deps/libintermezzos-a5f8d0c159026232.rlib" "/home/daniel/projects/os/kernel/target/x86_64-unknown-intermezzos-gnu/release/deps/libinterrupts-472aab710c3d4eff.rlib" "/home/daniel/projects/os/kernel/target/x86_64-unknown-intermezzos-gnu/release/deps/libspin-2e95bf66a70d82f7.rlib" "/home/daniel/projects/os/kernel/target/x86_64-unknown-intermezzos-gnu/release/deps/libpic-e52c5dc844b294ba.rlib" "/home/daniel/projects/os/kernel/target/x86_64-unknown-intermezzos-gnu/release/deps/libx86-40e865de7e1eb5d8.rlib" "/home/daniel/projects/os/kernel/target/x86_64-unknown-intermezzos-gnu/release/deps/libphf-59dad5c67dcb08ae.rlib" "/home/daniel/projects/os/kernel/target/x86_64-unknown-intermezzos-gnu/release/deps/libphf_shared-2f2f832e88cc18d1.rlib" "/home/daniel/projects/os/kernel/target/x86_64-unknown-intermezzos-gnu/release/deps/libraw_cpuid-836331a5adb599e3.rlib" "/home/daniel/projects/os/kernel/target/x86_64-unknown-intermezzos-gnu/release/deps/libbitflags-df92c0f529cb93d8.rlib" "/home/daniel/projects/os/kernel/target/x86_64-unknown-intermezzos-gnu/release/deps/libconsole-898e9b38d65bf2a3.rlib" "/home/daniel/.xargo/lib/rustlib/x86_64-unknown-intermezzos-gnu/lib/libcore-53a02f271ea0ee12.rlib" "-Wl,-Bdynamic"
  = note: /usr/bin/ld: /home/daniel/projects/os/kernel/target/x86_64-unknown-intermezzos-gnu/release/deps/libintermezzos-a5f8d0c159026232.rlib(boot.o): relocation R_X86_64_32 against `.bss' can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC
          /usr/bin/ld: final link failed: Nonrepresentable section on output
          collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
          

error: aborting due to previous error

error: Could not compile `intermezzos`.

Caused by:
  process didn't exit successfully: `rustc --crate-name intermezzos src/main.rs --crate-type bin --emit=dep-info,link -C opt-level=3 -C panic=abort -C metadata=73ba34d58d8c787f -C extra-filename=-73ba34d58d8c787f --out-dir /home/daniel/projects/os/kernel/target/x86_64-unknown-intermezzos-gnu/release/deps --target x86_64-unknown-intermezzos-gnu -L dependency=/home/daniel/projects/os/kernel/target/x86_64-unknown-intermezzos-gnu/release/deps -L dependency=/home/daniel/projects/os/kernel/target/release/deps --extern spin=/home/daniel/projects/os/kernel/target/x86_64-unknown-intermezzos-gnu/release/deps/libspin-2e95bf66a70d82f7.rlib --extern pic=/home/daniel/projects/os/kernel/target/x86_64-unknown-intermezzos-gnu/release/deps/libpic-e52c5dc844b294ba.rlib --extern rlibc=/home/daniel/projects/os/kernel/target/x86_64-unknown-intermezzos-gnu/release/deps/librlibc-3d5ca23970e1763b.rlib --extern keyboard=/home/daniel/projects/os/kernel/target/x86_64-unknown-intermezzos-gnu/release/deps/libkeyboard-eab5eb9c2612608d.rlib --extern console=/home/daniel/projects/os/kernel/target/x86_64-unknown-intermezzos-gnu/release/deps/libconsole-898e9b38d65bf2a3.rlib --extern interrupts=/home/daniel/projects/os/kernel/target/x86_64-unknown-intermezzos-gnu/release/deps/libinterrupts-472aab710c3d4eff.rlib --extern x86=/home/daniel/projects/os/kernel/target/x86_64-unknown-intermezzos-gnu/release/deps/libx86-40e865de7e1eb5d8.rlib --extern lazy_static=/home/daniel/projects/os/kernel/target/x86_64-unknown-intermezzos-gnu/release/deps/liblazy_static-f2c83931040bd2fb.rlib --extern intermezzos=/home/daniel/projects/os/kernel/target/x86_64-unknown-intermezzos-gnu/release/deps/libintermezzos-a5f8d0c159026232.rlib --sysroot /home/daniel/.xargo -L native=/home/daniel/projects/os/kernel/target/x86_64-unknown-intermezzos-gnu/release/build/intermezzos-664041d978565111/out` (exit code: 101)

https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/blob/master/share/doc/homebrew/Custom-GCC-and-cross-compilers.md

It would be super rad if we could provide a formula rather than just the install script.

Work in progress: Fixed scrolling a bit by allowing the scroll to happen if we're about to write to a position outside the buffer. Before it only scrolled on newlines. Also added a bit of code to update the cursors location!

As stated above this is a WIP, I was just messing around a bit but it works well enough! I just copied the outb asm function from the interrupts lib, so that's something that might need to change.

Let me know what you guys think!

One major thing holding back intermezzOS development is that I'm on Windows now. Getting a native windows build would be key.

http://forum.osdev.org/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=27605 might be a part of the puzzle.

Builds off of #89 to start constructing a stateful keyboard driver capable of modeling the user's interaction with the keyboard and translating that into key codes for the OS and programs.

• [x] Decode basic set of 1-byte PS/2 scan codes
• [x] Managed internal state of pressed keys, clear state when keys released
• [x] Return current printable character to OS (when possible) when inputting latest scan code
• [x] Report backspace and other non-printables to the OS (send ASCII code?)
• [x] Tests!
• [ ] Decode 2-byte and 3-byte PS/2 scan codes (stretch goal); this will need more complex state management in the driver

Hi all, I decided to take a crack at getting this sucker working on os x. I went through and documented my steps in a script. @steveklabnik said an issue would be good to document this stuff so yay :tada:.

Things the script does:

1. brew install tools that it can like gmp, mpfr, libmpc, autoconf, and automake
2. Download and compile tools in order to make a cross compiler: binutils, gcc, objconv
3. Download and compile grub using the cross compiler

This works or at least doesn't error out obviously. I'm going to run through this process again when I have more time to see if there are any silent errors.

By changing the Makefile a little to point at the ld and grub-mkrescue that you just made you should be able to run make now. Nothing errors, but at this point nothing shows up after you have the kernel running.

Also I'm a super newbie at all of this stuff so I apologize if something is wrong. Also just a disclaimer the script above downloads and compiles stuff into your home dir. I suggest you read it or edit it if you want to change the dirs that it puts stuff in. They should be made configurable at some point.

I'll post here with any follow up I find.

I can't seem to find a good way to cleanly shut down qemu. The docs I found here (http://wiki.qemu.org/download/qemu-doc.html) show a way to "Exit emulator", but this doesn't seem to work for me at least inside of the Vagrant VM. For now, I'm just using pgrep qemu | xargs kill -15

The version of nasm packaged with debian stretch doesn't work, but the one with jessie does. It appears to be a change between nasm 2.11 and nasm 2.12, but working on both seems like a good idea.

I noticed that intermezzOS doesn't compile anymore due to this commit that makes xargo require the "linker-flavor" argument in the x86_64-unknown-intermezzos-gnu.json file.

Once added the line "linker-flavor": "ld", it started compiling, but I was still getting errors, that led me to add another line "linker": "ld",.

Now it compiles just fine, but when I try to make run grub returns this error:

error: no multiboot header found
error: you need to load the kernel first

Can anyone help me? :)

Bootimage install fails with nightly rust installed. Does not like the function "read_to_string". I was able to get it to work using the stable rust branch. Not sure what other problems that will cause down the line though.

I view this one of the best features in an OS kernel, as it allows reusing anything above the hardware abstracting layer on more than one architecture. Is multi-architecture support something this project aims for?

In order to manage the memory, the OS should know how much it has. Extra information about reserved addresses and memory holes (maybe these are the same, I don't know yet), should also be taken into account.

This is super off the wall, but intermezzOS through kvm would be amazing http://lwn.net/Articles/658511/

marking as "question" because who knows if we even want to do this

@ketsuban has an example here: https://github.com/Ketsuban/finisterre

I think this would be a good idea before going to usermode, so cc https://github.com/intermezzOS/kernel/issues/82

If anyone is interested in tackling this, please give it a try!