From OSR

The nway project has moved to Sandia: http://software.sandia.gov/trac/kitten

Project Kitten: N-Way Light Weight Kernel

Code Name: Project Kitten

Derived from the Puma => Cougar => Catamount lineage of cat named projects.

• Mailing list archive (Members only)
• Bugzilla database
• Enter new bug
• CPU Comparison

Project Meetings

• Nway Project Meeting (1/18/07)
• Telecon 03-20-07
• Telecon 03-29-07
• Telecon 04-12-07
• Telecon 06-07-07

Development environment

• nWay codebase overview
• Source browser
• Bochs x86 emulator setup guide
• Tuntap howto setup Linux/Bochs to provide network access to the guest OS through the tuntap network interface
• Compute Linux minimal runtime system
• Nway LWK prototype implementation
• N-way LWK Coding Style Guide
• N-way Hardware Resources

API Guide

Kevin wrote a strawman API guide. Trammell's Nway API suggestion.

• Ideology
• Structures
• Interfaces

Useful links

• Roll You Own OS (by the ACM SIGOPS)
• Build your own OS
• i386 Reference
• Linux paging model 2.4 based, but still useful
• OS development wiki
  • Creating Disk Images
  • Using the APIC
• Multiboot standard
• Bringing SMP to your UP OS
• GCC Inline Assembly HOWTO
• FreeBSD source code browser
• x86 PAE and 2 MB pages
• Doxygen manual
• Overview of Timekeeping (PIT/APIC/RDTSC/etc.)

Reference manuals

• Part 3A: Systems programming (3.2 MB PDF)
• Part 3B: Systems programming (2.8 MB PDF)
• x86-64 ABI (PDF)
• ELF Handling For Thread-Local Storage
• Opteron BIOS and Kernel Guide