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Summary

Citrus is a bare metal lightweight operation system designed for the Cortex®-A series. Every thing will be completely bare metal - no libraries - literally.

Making an application

Coming soon

Install

Download and burn the disk image file and insert into the board. This will load the bootloader which will load the kernel. To enter debug mode, connect a jumper to PC20 and make the kernel using make install.

Building

Some packages is required in order to build the operating system. I recomend using Ubuntu, either native or in WSL. The build-essentials package is used for running make, and the gcc-arm-none-eabi is the compiler toolchain used for building and debugging the operating system.

> sudo apt update
> sudo apt install build-essential
> sudo apt install gcc-arm-none-eabi

Then you must install the second stage bootloader; c-boot, which will load the operating system into main memory.

> git clone https://github.com/strawberryhacker/c-boot
> cd c-boot
> make

This will generate a binary called boot.bin in the build/ folder. Place this file in the root directory of a FAT formatted SD card and plug it into the board. The next step is to download and build the kernel.

> git clone https://github.com/strawberryhacker/citrus
> cd citrus
> make install

This will load the kernel image to main memory over serial and start it. Support for loading the kernel from an SD card will be added to c-boot later.