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Tenessine Kernel

Tenessine is the kernel Oganesson runs on.

Design Goals

For code simplicity reasons, Tenessine will not attempt to be a "normal" microkernel. However, Tenessine will aim to combine aspects from both monolithic- and microkernels (hybrid kernel), so that the advantages of both can be exploited. In this vain, the following will remain in-kernel:

  • VFS
  • "Basic" drivers such as IDE, AHCI, NVMe...
  • Backends on which more complicated drivers (aka drivers with a bigger potential to have bugs in them) can communicate with hardware while remaining in user-space
    • Maybe revive NDI?
    • This will mean seperate "classes" of processes, which would also allow other interesting features in the future.

At this point, I have not yet fully decided whether I will implement a standard POSIX system in-kernel. Additionally, Tenessine will also aim to remain extremly modular, so that features can be easily added, removed, or ported to other systems.