KnightOS has a brand new assembler, and this time a linker was invited to the party as well. Let’s introduce some of the things that make it awesome, as well as explain the motivation behind it and how it works. This post should be the first stop for anyone who hopes to contribute to the new assembler.
As part of an ongoing effort to make our project more approachable and accessible, we’ve set up a mailing list with browsable archives where you will be able to listen in on dev chatter and collaborate with the community.
As of today, knightos.org doesn’t look like Yet Another Bootstrap Site! This isn’t a particularly newsworthy event but I feel the need to populate the list of blog posts since we haven’t really been blogging about this project.
Emscripten is pretty cool! It lets you write portable C and cross-compile it to JavaScript so it’ll run in a web browser. I looked to emscripten as a potential means of reducing the cost of entry for new developers hoping to target the OS.
KnightOS is a preemptive multitasking operating system, and it has to figure out which tasks can use the CPU and when, and make an attempt at keeping things fair. Let’s talk a bit about the details of how this works in KnightOS.