"Tifflin" Experimental Kernel (and eventually Operating System)

This is an experiment in writing an OS Kernel in rust (http://rust-lang.org).

Mostly the architecture is being designed as I go along, but it will be written to be architecture independent (the current version is x86_64/amd64).

Design Features

Runtime module initialisation with dependencies
Clear user-kernel separation of duties
Userland owns the ELF loader, kernel uses a custom format for init.
Object-based syscall API
Kernel-provided window manager (yes, I know old windows did this)

Progress

Filesystems
ISO9660
FAT12/16/32
Storage
(P)ATA
SATA (AHCI)
ATAPI CDROM
VirtIO Block
Input
PS2 Keyboard/Mouse
Graphics
Multiboot only
GUI Apps
Login (Credentials are root/password)
"GUI Shell" (with background!)
Text Terminal app (with basic set of commands)
Filesystem viewer
Architectures
amd64 (aka x86_64) - Boots to limit of implementation
armv7 - Loads userland then crashes

Build Dependencies

nasm
GNU Binutils (cross-compiled)
GCC (for ACPICA)
pxelinux
libguestfs-tools (for creating disk images)