As a programmer and manager of embedded software products for a living, I think that operating system programming is so much fun that it will eventually be outlawed. I've previously published two articles on OSNews, So, you want to write
an operating system and Climbing
the kernel mountain, and tried to summarize my experience in designing operating system kernels as well as technical traps that can be easily avoided.
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I think the article misses one rather important point. Don't write your own kernel if you don't know what you're doing. If you want to learn about systems/OS programming, maybe it'd be best to learn about it properly first (take a course or something). Then you will be better prepared to actually write a kernel, and probably skip a lot of the issues raised here...
I think the article misses one rather important point. Don't write your own kernel if you don't know what you're doing. If you want to learn about systems/OS programming, maybe it'd be best to learn about it properly first (take a course or something). Then you will be better prepared to actually write a kernel, and probably skip a lot of the issues raised here...