2.7 KiB
Alcyone Kernel & Core:
Alcyone is an NT-like hybrid kernel with the goal of being lightweight and robust, akin to the NT5 generation (2000/XP/2003), with a radically modern architecture designed to exploit contemporary hardware
Alcyone closely follows NT5 Phylosophy, even though it has some featureset taken from NT10,it archieves it's phylosophical Goal by utilizing lighter Synchronization Mechanism and simpler Algorithmic design seen with Windows 2000/XP/Server 2003. Alcyone reimagines NT Kernel, if Windows Vista was never introduced and XP/2003 were the last version of Microsoft Windows. Imagine Modernized Windows XP Kernel which is lightweight like former but support modern hardware and contains Kernel Design Improvement seen in last 2 decades.
Alcyone closely follows the NT5 philosophy, incorporating some features from NT10. It achieves its philosophical goals by utilizing lighter synchronization mechanisms and simpler algorithmic designs reminiscent of Windows 2000/XP/Server 2003. Alcyone reimagines the NT kernel as if Windows Vista had never been introduced, and XP/2003 were the last versions of Microsoft Windows. Imagine a modernized Windows XP kernel that retains the lightweight nature of its predecessors but supports modern hardware and incorporates kernel design improvements seen in the last two decades.
Alcyone is Written in Subset of C++20
Design Phylosophy: *Maximum Utilization of Lighter SpinLocks instead of Guarded Mutexes/Pushlocks *Modular and Well Abstracted *Algorithms Optimized for Minimum Time Complexity. *Backward Compatibility with XP/2003 Drivers. *Cutting Edge Hardware Support. *Lightning Fast
NOTE: Mutexes/Pushlocks are used when it is abosolutely necessary.
Alycone Core Source Structure: NTOSKRNL:Alcyone Kernel. NTLDR: Alcyone Bootloader HAL: Hardware Abstraction Layer. BUS: Bus Driver[PCIE/ACPI/HDAudio/USB...] DRIVER: Device Driver[Network/GPU/...] XDDM: Components Related to Display Driver Model
Kernel Source Directory Structure: ALPC:Asynchronous Local Procedure Call CC:Cache Controller AsyncCC:Asynchronous Cache Controller CM: Config Manager FS:File Stream Runtime Library EX:Extended Kernel Routines PNP: Plug and Play Manager IO: I/O Manager AsyncIO : I/O Ring & New Asynchronous IO Manager KE: Kernel Executive MM:Memory Manager OB:Object Manager PO:Power Manager PM:Process Manager RTL:Runtime Library SE: Secuirity Acess State Coordinator VDM: Virtual DOS Machine VDF: Verifier Device Driver Interface WMI: Windows Management Instrumentation
CONTRIBUTION: Every contributor is welcome, as long as they have not viewed illegally leaked Microsoft proprietary source code
Alcyone is Core of Libre-XP/Swatantra-XP Operating System.