Neotron OS

This is the Neotron OS. It will run on any system which can execute ARM Thumb v7-M instructions, and has an implementation of the Neotron BIOS.

Status

This OS is a work in progress. We intend to support:

• Calling BIOS APIs
• Text mode VGA console
• Serial console
• Starting a command-line shell application
• Executing applications from RAM
• MBR/FAT32 formatted block devices with standard open/close/read/write file semantics
• Basic networking
• Music playback
• Various keyboard layouts
• Ethernet / WiFi networking

Build instructions

Your board will need an appropriate Neotron BIOS installed, and you need to have OpenOCD or some other programming tool running for your particular board. See your BIOS instructions for more details.

We compile one version of Neotron OS, but we link it three times to produce three binaries:

• flash0002 - is linked to run from address 0x0002_0000
• flash1002 - is linked to run from address 0x1002_0000
• flash0802 - is linked to run from address 0x0802_0000

$ git clone https://github.com/neotron-compute/Neotron-OS.git
$ cd Neotron-OS
$ git submodule update --init
$ cargo build --release
$ ls ./target/thumbv6m-none-eabi/release/flash{10,08,00}02
./target/thumbv6m-none-eabi/release/flash0002 ./target/thumbv6m-none-eabi/release/flash0802 ./target/thumbv6m-none-eabi/release/flash1002

Your BIOS should tell you which one you want and how to load it onto your system.

Changelog

Unreleased Changes (Source)

• Basic println! to the text buffer.
• Re-arranged linker script setup

Licence

Neotron-OS Copyright (c) The Neotron Developers, 2022

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
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Contribution

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