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mycelium

someday this will do stuff

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what is it?

this repository contains Mycelium, an alleged “operating system”, and a collection of Rust libraries written as part of its development. eventually, Mycelium will be a microkernel-ish operating system that runs on commodity desktop hardware, executes WebAssembly modules in both kernel- and user-space, and implements the WebAssembly System Interface (or WASI) as its syscall layer.

right now, though, it runs…one webassembly module, which prints “hello world” and immediately exits. so that’s coming along great, thanks for asking.

crates

“what if the real operating system was the libraries we wrote along the way?”

in the process of implementing Mycelium itself, we’ve written a whole bunch of Rust libraries, which also live in this repository. some of these libraries may be generally useful for other projects, and have been or will be published to crates.io.

the general-purpose crates in this repository include:

in addition, beyond the kernel itself, this repository also contains the following Mycelium components:

  • hal-core: the core interface definitions of Mycelium’s (admittedly somewhat half-baked) hardware abstraction layer,
  • hal-x86_64: implementations of the Mycelium HAL for 64-bit x86 (amd64) CPUs,
  • mycotest: testing utilities for Mycelium’s in-kernel tests,
  • inoculate: Mycelium’s Horrible Build Tool™

how do i run it?

so…how do i actually build and run Mycelium?

the easiest way to run the Mycelium kernel (using the QEMU emulator) is to use inoculate, Mycelium’s Horrible Build Tool™. to launch Mycelium in QEMU, run

cargo run-x64

see CONTRIBUTING.md for details on development environment setup and tools.

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