Kernel Overview

Filed under: Exclaim Kernel

The Exclaim kernel is a modular monolithic kernel designed from scratch to take advantage of modern technologies while retaining support for older hardware as well. From the start it has supported multiple processors (SMP) and AMD64 processors.

The kernel is designed to be easily portable to other architectures: everything architecture-dependent is separated from the architecture independent code. Adding support for a new architecture simply requires implementing the functions required by the architecture-independent layer and code to bring up the kernel.