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.

Noble boots via the Limine Boot Protocol found here.

Components

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

Gluon Architecture Library

A Rust Library which handles:

• The x86-64 Instruction Set Architecture:
  • Intrinsic Instructions
  • The Local Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
  • Model Specific Registers
  • Long Mode Page Tables
  • I/O Ports
  • Segmentation Data Structures
  • System Calls
• The PC Defacto Standard System Architecture
  • The File Allocation Table (FAT) File System
  • The PC's Standard I/O-space Layout
  • The PCI Bus
  • The 8259 Programmable Interrupt Controller
  • The 8253 and 8254 Programmable Interval Timer
  • The 8042 PS/2 Controller and Devices
• The System V OS Architecture:
  • System V Object Files (ELF Files)
• The Noble OS Architecture:
  • The Noble Address Space Layout
  • User Keyboard, Mouse, and Controller Inputs
  • Noble File System Handles