Tartan OS

A toy OS written in Rust. The name is a reference to the old logo of a certain rust removal product.

So far, it is not much more than a UEFI bootloader with some in-progress support for ACPI (including an AML parser and interpreter).

This is mainly a personal learning project to get familiar with Rust, as well as to update my knowledge about OS internals and hardware that's newer than the PC/AT. 🙃

Dependencies

Tested on macOS and Linux.

• Rust 1.82.0 nightly toolchain
• QEMU 5.1
• bash, for the QEMU launcher script
• Python 3.2+ for booting 32-bit Arm only

In order to edit the ACPI parser integration tests, you will also need tools documented at acpi/tests/parse/README.md.

Suggested additional tools:

• cargo-binutils

Build

Note that when building, running, or testing with Cargo, the build settings will depend on your current directory due to the provided Cargo configuration files:

• From the main directory, Cargo will build for your host system by default, using the prebuilt standard Rust libraries from your toolchain.
• From the uefi/ directory, Cargo will compile the standard rust libraries for the specified --target, which is x86_64-unknown-uefi by default. This is configured in uefi/.cargo/config.toml.

Libraries for host system

cargo build

Kernel for target system

To build the kernel for the target system:

(cd kernel && cargo build --target target-specs/<ARCH>-unknown-kernel.json)

# Or alternatively, from outside the kernel/ directory:
cargo build --package tartan-kernel -Z build-std \
    --target kernel/target-specs/<ARCH>-unknown-kernel.json

Where <ARCH> is one of:

• x86_64
• i686
• aarch64
• arm

UEFI bootloader for target system

To build the UEFI bootloader for the target system:

(cd uefi && cargo build --target target-specs/<ARCH>-unknown-uefi.json)

# Or alternatively, from outside the uefi/ directory:
cargo build --package tartan-uefi -Z build-std \
    --target uefi/target-specs/<ARCH>-unknown-uefi.json

The UEFI application (a PE image) will be emitted at target/<ARCH>-unknown-uefi/debug/tartan-uefi.efi.

Note that for the arm target, the PE image does not have the "machine type" expected by the UEFI runtime, so it will not boot as-is. This is fixed with a Python script when booting via cargo run (see below), but you will have to manually fix it if you deploy the application yourself. See uefi/script/boot.sh.

Run in QEMU

./uefi/script/build-and-boot.sh <ARCH>

This builds the kernel and UEFI bootloader and then launches the UEFI application in QEMU using uefi/script/boot.sh.

Test

cargo test

Runs tests on your host system. There is currently no support for running the tests on the target architecture in QEMU.

Documentation

cargo doc --open

Documentation from the latest build is available at https://tartan.cimbul.com/.

Lint

cargo clippy --all-targets

License

© Copyright 2020 Tim Yates

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see https://www.gnu.org/licenses/.

I would be willing to release this under a more permissive license if someone finds it useful, but I don't expect that to be the case.