Writing an OS in Rust to run on RISC-V

• haxe

  82 5,958 9.7 Haxe

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• c2rust

  46 3,673 9.5 Rust

  Migrate C code to Rust

  

This is arguably already the state of things.

Rust might get compiled down through MIR, down through LLVM IR, down to assembly or wasm... which then might be JIT or AOT (re)compiled into other bytecodes... which might perhaps be decompiled back up to C... and C might be retranslated back to horrific unsafe-spamming Rust by the likes of https://c2rust.com/. We've come full circle!

The main issue is that retranslating high level languages into other high level languages isn't something that there's actually a lot of demand for, especially commercially, especially given the N x M translation matrix going on. So a lot of the projects "stabilize" (get abandoned). And automatically translating between the idioms of those languages gets even nastier in terms of matrix bloat.

Well, you've got stuff like MSIL and JVM bytecodes which are higher level, and preserve more type information, and can be compiled to / decompiled from while still preserving more structure, but they still form competing incompatible ecosystems.

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• xous-core

  12 507 9.9 Rust

  The Xous microkernel

  

Xous, the OS that runs on the precursor, may be of interest to look at too:

https://github.com/betrusted-io/xous-core

It is written in Rust and is targeted for a RISC-V

• ferros

  9 101 0.0 Rust

  A Rust-based userland which also adds compile-time assurances to seL4 development.

  

When we add WASM support to https://github.com/auxoncorp/ferros it'll sorta be like what you're angling at there in your description.

• mirage

  32 2,425 8.7 OCaml

  MirageOS is a library operating system that constructs unikernels

  

MirageOS is not Rust, but in the ballpark!

https://mirage.io/

• xv6-rust

  1 16 10.0 C

  Discontinued A faithful port of the 32-bit xv6 learner's operating system to the Rust programming language (by connorkuehl)

is there any updated xv6-rust (prefer X64, but at least X86)?

I already tried:

- https://github.com/connorkuehl/xv6-rust

• xv6-rust

  1 6 10.0 Rust

  xv6 implementation in rust (by tiqwab)

- https://github.com/tiqwab/xv6-rust

Cannot build both succesfully with latest Rust on Mac. Maybe I need to use Linux for this purpose...

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• osv

  7 4,034 8.9 C

  OSv, a new operating system for the cloud.

  

I have also found OSv to be interesting.

https://osv.io/

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