A reasonably secure and reliable operating system
Copyright © 2024 George Witt
The Northern Lights kernel and its operating system components are "source-available" software. You are free to use this software internally for any purpose. In the future, it will be released under a free software license. API header files are released under the BSD 2-Clause license. Refer to COPYING for more information.
Contributions are not accepted at this time, however bug reports are welcome.
This program is provided to anyone in the hope that it will be useful, but without any warranty, not even the implied warranty of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.
This OS is designed to be cross-compiled. To build the debug version for the
RISC-V architecture, you need to install the riscv-gnu-toolchain to
/opt/riscv with LLVM and Ada enabled. After doing that, simply run:
$ ARCH=riscv SKU=debug ./configure && make
Other architectures are not currently supported.
This OS currently runs on the QEMU virt platform. Simply add the
-kernel boot/kernimg flag to QEMU’s arguments.