PowerNex is a kernel written in the D Programming Language. The goal is to have a whole OS written in D, where PowerNex powers the core.

The name PowerNex comes from the words `power` and `next`. A kernel to power the next generation of hardware.

You can support the project in many ways.

• Make pull requests
• Comment on issues
  • Example help with #30 Mascot
• Donate
  • Monthly donations: https://www.patreon.com/Wild
  • One time donations: https://www.paypal.me/Vild

It requires a crosscompiler, which can be aquired by running `./toolchainManager.d`. PowerNex is using a build system called reggae, which build scripts are outputted in a ninja format.

To enter the development environment run `source env.sh`. This adds shortcuts for building and running.

‘c’

Removes the build files

‘v’

Compiles PowerNex

‘b’

Compiles and runs PowerNex in qemu

‘a’

Runs addr2line on the kernel

• A 64bit processor
• At least 128 MiB of ram (Probably work on less)

Recommended & Supported Virtual Machines

• QEMU

– Recommended launch command qemu-system-x86_64 -cdrom PowerNex.iso -m 128 -no-reboot

• VirtualBox

• Dan “Wild” Printzell

• Jakob “M4GNV5” Löw

• Adam D. Ruppe - For his minimal.zip, which contains a bare bone minimal d runtime. Which this kernel is based on.
• Bloodmanovski - For his D Kernel Trinix, His files for booting x64 really helped me a lot.
• Lukas “zrho” Heidemann - For his Hydrogen project. It really inspired and help me to make PowerD, the intermediate bootloader.

Mozilla Public License, version 2.0