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arthurmco / annOS

Arthur's Not Named Operating System, an OS with a C++ kernel.

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Use a graphical framebuffer instead of the VGA text mode for displaying text #8

Open arthurmco opened 6 years ago

arthurmco commented 6 years ago

VGA text mode is deprecated and will not run in UEFI. The VBE (or GOP, in UEFI systems) framebuffer are the way to go here.

Then, we'll be able to load this OS in UEFI environments (GRUB supports UEFI, so no urge to write a bootloader)

Things we need to have

[ ] Working PMM (#5) and VMM (#6). The kernel heap (#7) is encouraged, but not required
[ ] Ramdisk support, to load a console font and use it
- [ ] Virtual filesystem, implied by the ramdisk