Gamers Only OS (GOOS)

An operating system that targets RISC-V, specifically QEMU's virt board.

Steps

1. Set up a GCC cross-compiler for RISC-V ELF/Newlib. See this for instructions.

2. Run make.

Dependencies

• GCC 11.1.0
• GNU Binutils 2.37
• GNU gdb 10.1
• GNU Make 4.2.1
• QEMU 4.2.1

Linux Reference

See this for instructions on how to create a Debian disk image for RISC-V and run it on QEMU using OpenSBI and U-Boot.

Resources

The following were very useful resources and references:

Unofficial:

• OS Dev Wiki
• SOS: Targets ARMv7-A but was a useful reference when starting for basic organization and build processes.
• Stephen Marz's Blog: Lots of good explanations about RISC-V arch/asm, even though I'm not using Rust.

Official:

• Linux
• QEMU mirror
• RISC-V Specifications
• SiFive FU540-C000 Manual: QEMU's VIRTIO board emulates the same PLIC as the SiFive Freedom U540's. This was very helpful when implementing interrupt handlers.