Raspberry Pi: Write Your Own Operating System Step by Step

Learn how to write a 64-bit operating system from scratch for raspberry pi 3 and 4

Created by: x-BIT Development
Low-Level Programming Training

What Will I Learn?

• Be able to build a simple operating system for the ARM64 architecture.
• Understand the fundamentals of ARM64
• How to handle interrupts and exceptions in ARM64 mode
• How to write OS kernel with the assembly code and C code
• Be able to build a memory manager using ARM paging mechanism
• How to write timer handler for the process manager
• How to build a process manager to schedule processes and change them among different states (sleep, ready, killed)
• How to implement system call module to make user programs running in the system
• Write a simple console and interact with OS kernel using commands
• Be able to write a simple file system module which supports reading fat16 system.

Requirements

• Raspberry Pi 3B or 4 (not required)
• USB to TTL Serial Cable (not required)
• Basic Knowledge of ARM 64-bit Assembly Language and C Language

Target audience

• Students who learned the operating system concepts and want to put them into practice
• Students curious about the fundamental mechanisms used in the OS
• People who want to build a hobby OS but don't know how and where to start