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K-Project

Minimal operating system kernel implemented in C and Assembly as part of EPITA's LSE coursework.

K-Project is a minimal operating system kernel developed in C and Assembly as part of the LSE (Laboratoire Systèmes EPITA) curriculum.
This academic project introduces students to low-level systems programming and the core components of a modern kernel — entirely from scratch.

The kernel provides essential functionalities such as:

  • Bootloader and Multiboot setup using GRUB
  • Physical and virtual memory management with paging
  • Interrupt Descriptor Table (IDT) configuration and hardware interrupt handling
  • System call interface
  • Round-robin scheduler
  • Basic drivers for keyboard, screen (VGA), and serial ports
  • User program loading via a simplified ELF parser

Development is done using QEMU, with no reliance on any external operating system or runtime — giving full control over the machine from boot to task execution.

This project offered hands-on insight into CPU architecture, memory models, hardware interfacing, and bare-metal programming — forming a strong foundation for understanding how real-world kernels like Linux operate at their core.


Note: Due to EPITA's academic policies, source code for this project is not publicly available.