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What do people think of a barebones x86 library? Buy this I mean a library which can handle audio, network, file systems, video and runs directly on the hardware without any underlying OS. You'd probably need a bootloader like GRUB so you programs can be larger than 512 bytes.

MessiahAndrw wrote:What do people think of a barebones x86 library? Buy this I mean a library which can handle audio, network, file systems, video and runs directly on the hardware without any underlying OS. You'd probably need a bootloader like GRUB so you programs can be larger than 512 bytes.

Sounds like any other RTOS setup.

I think it should only be able to handle simple devices...with network, there is too broad of a range...but something that could do CPU stuff for you(like loading GDT and TSS and such..without inline asm) and something that could do VGA/SVGA/VBE graphics would be pretty cool too...

Simple harddrive(ATA and SATA) and other drives(USB mass storage devices, floppies, and cd-rom) would be really cool...

Sounds like DexOS, as its got drivers for all them thinks .

Dex is right.