Bluejay

Bluejay is a preemptive kernel for x86. It is inspired by modern day UNIX-like systems and 80's Lisp machines. The goal is to create a fully usable kernel and graphical Lisp environment.

While Bluejay is inspired by both UNIX and Lisp machines, it seeks to replicate neither. No attempt is made to conform to POSIX or even follow UNIX conventions. However, the "UNIX philosophy" of doing one thing and doing it well is certainly a consideration.

Photo by Erin Minuskin on Unsplash

Roadmap

• [x] Virtual memory
  • [x] Higher-half kernel
  • [x] Per-process memory
  • [x] Placeholder physical allocator
  • [x] Efficient kernel virtual allocator
• [ ] Preemptive multitasking
  • [x] Multi-threading
  • [ ] Multi-process support
• [ ] Filesystem
  • [x] Virtual file system
  • [x] Initial ramdisk
  • [ ] ATA/SATA drivers
  • [ ] Filesystem drivers
    • [ ] EXT2
    • [ ] FAT32
• [ ] System call API
  • [ ] Filesystem API
  • [ ] Memory management API (sbrk, mmap, etc)
  • [ ] Process/thread API (spawn_process, spawn_thread, etc)
• [ ] Lisp integrated into kernel
• [ ] User-space driver API
  • [ ] Lisp API
• [ ] Graphical subsystem
  • [ ] Graphical environment in Lisp

Documentation

Manual pages are available in doc/, and additional documentation is available on the wiki.