5 Acess2 is [TPG]'s hobby operating system.
7 The Acess kernel is SEMI-posix compilant, but there will be a comatability
8 library that emulates the different functions.
12 The /Kernel tree contains the kernel sources.
13 Within the root of the tree is the miscelanious architecture agnostic
14 code for managing threads, loading modules and other things.
15 /Kernel/arch/<archname> - Architecture dependent code
16 /Kernel/bin - Binary file format parsers. Takes a binary file and
17 convertes it into a binary object that the loader can then load into memory.
18 /Kernel/vfs - The Virtual Filesystem
19 /Kernel/vfs/fs - The various filesystem drivers for the VFS.
23 /Usermode contains the base acess system
24 /Usermode/Applications - Usermode applications such as the default
25 command shell and the login shell.
26 /Usermode/Libraries - Usermode shared libraries and crt0.o, currently
27 implemented are libacess (kernel interface), a basic libc and ld-acess
29 /Usermode/include - Required include files for the shared libraries.
32 Required Tools: GNU Toolchain (GCC,Gas,binutils), NASM, mtools, GNU calc
33 Compiling Acess is relatively simple (at the moment)
34 First edit /Makefile.cfg and set the build programs (making sure they match
35 the architecture you are building for).
36 Then select the architecture to build (At the moment only x86:i386 works).
37 Edit the FILESYSTEMS variable to alter what filesystems are comipled in
38 (see /Kernel/vfs/fs for what filesystems are included).
39 DRIVERS defines what device drivers are to be included from the Kernel
40 tree (see /Kernel/drv for a list).
41 MODULES defines what modules should be statically linked with the kernel
42 (see /Modules for a list)
44 Set the source root directory (ACESSDIR) and the destination directory
46 To be able to build usermode programs, Usermode/Libraries/acess.ld needs
47 to be edited to change the SEARCH_DIR directive to the correct path.
48 You may also want to edit Usermode/Filesystem/Conf/BootConf.cfg before
51 Now you can compile the kernel and usermode applications by calling make