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An experimental operating system project that runs at the BIOs level, but can be a functional operating system.
See above. Also see below for more info.
BootDown is an extension to a bootloader, but it can also be its own bootloader. It is compatible with GRUB2 as a bootloader extension.
BootDown works at the BIOs level, and the system is accessible within a few seconds of pressing the power button (on Solid State Drives) and can be considered a pre-operating system. You are booting down, not booting up.
Due to the simplicity of this boot stage, there are limitations to how BootDown works.
Here are the known limitations to BootDown, as of Tuesday, 2021 September 21st at 2:06 pm.
BootDown is a Bootloader extension at a very low boot level, thus it can only access 65,536 bytes of storage for its own usage. Other usage must be read from an existing partition.
This limit prevents BootDown from doing things like having lots of features, one notable loss is the lack of multi-lingual support. You can only have 1 language at a time. You will have to choose the English version if you speak English, but will need to do a separate installation if you want to choose Esperanto, Spanish, German, etc. I don't even know if Chinese language support is possible with the given constraints, due to the Chinese language being so large and complex (over half of the UTF-16 block is just Chinese radicals
BootDown isn't a traditional operating system, and is being done at the pre-boot stage. This means it can't access API calls or functions needed to connect to the Internet or run a web browser. Bluetooth isn't available either.
Features will be split across multiple variants. For example, there will be CLI version A that has a command line plus some features, CLI version B which is the same, but with some other features, GUI version A, which contains a Graphical User Interface and some features, and GUI version B, which is the same, but with some other features, etc.
Application support is only available for programs written in x86 Assembly, VHDL, Verilog, or SystemVerilog. C and C++ programs may be possible, but programs written in Python, Java, C#, Go, Kotlin, and many other languages are not supported.
This is still an experimental project, limitations are still being found.
BootDown is planned to work on most modern hardware platforms, and also most legacy platforms. These include:
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FPGA (Field-Programmable Gate Array)
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R-PI (Raspberry Pi)
It also is planned to work with:
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BIOs (Basic Input Output system)
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UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface)
More architectures will be supported in the future.
BootDown is an experimental operating system project that runs at the BIOs level, but can be a functional CLI or GUI operating system that can read and write files, access hard drives, and so on, before booting into the main operating system.
Severe limitations will be in place, such as a low file size limit, possibly pushing to partitions, and so on. I will need to research this concept more, this is an experimental project. Also, due to size reasons, multi-lingual support will be unavailable once you install. Each installation will only support 1 language.
Also, due to how basic the project is, don't expect to be able to do things like run a web browser, or using LibreOffice, but expect things like running Pong, Doom, or other games ported to Assembly, VHDL, Verilog, or SystemVerilog.
The project was originally called BL/S or BL/Ss (which stood for BootLoader System or BootLoader Subsystem) but the name was changed to BootDown, as the project is more than just a bootloader. BootDown is in reference to booting down to a lower level system, rather than booting up to a higher level system.
This project is written in 4 different programming languages:
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Assembly
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VHDL (Virtual Hard Disk Language)
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Verilog
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SystemVerilog
It is supplemented by 3 basic computer languages as well:
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GNU Makefile
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Markdown
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Plain text
Multi-lingual support is currently unavailable, but the project is available in English. To install in a different language, you would have to download a different installation image in your preferred language, as this system is so small that it can only support 1 language at a time.
Currently, the project has been written for the following languages:
- English (US)
The boot from the scuba diver from the SpongeBob SquarePants movie (2004) seemed to fit this project well. I used a low resolution image, but this may not stay, as I want an original logo. I want something that resembles a dark and murky boot.
Here is the featured software that can work directly off the hardware, without an operating system. Most of these don't require BootDown to be installed, but are planned to pair with it.
From the BootDown organization: https://github.com/BootDown-dev/uefidoom
From the source repository: https://github.com/Cacodemon345/uefidoom
From the BootDown organization: https://github.com/BootDown-dev/VerilogBoy
From the source repository: https://github.com/zephray/VerilogBoy
From the BootDown organization: https://github.com/BootDown-dev/screen-pong
From the source repository: https://github.com/juanmard/screen-pong
From the BootDown organization: https://github.com/BootDown-dev/grub2-filemanager
From the source repository: https://github.com/a1ive/grub2-filemanager
From the BootDown organization: https://github.com/BootDown-dev/BIOSUtilities
From the source repository: https://github.com/platomav/BIOSUtilities
The ///0/ directory has some sample programs and documentation for the BootDown system. Currently, there is a README.txt file, and 2 sample programs, 1 is currently not functional.
A Hello World program is available, which is written in Assembly. It is named HELLOWLD.asm due to limitations, such as the 8:3 file system.
A modified version of the Hello World program with a Roman Empire joke is included, which is named CAESAR.asm but isn't functional yet. Instead of outputting Hello World, it outputs Et tu, boot? which is supposed to translate to You too, bootis? from Latin. The first 2 words are proper latin, but I am not sure if boot would translate to bootis this program is not functional, as it has a line with the following data:
stab 23 ; Caesar was stabbed 23 times, although this may not be valid syntaxwhich may not be valid syntax.
This project has a short history so far.
This project was started on 2021 Sunday September 19th as a concept project that was thought of the same day as its creation. The other concept from this day was the ScreenTeX project the concept was partially written down in a private repository, but was made public on 2021 Monday September 20th after I created the organization for this project. The project was worked on extensively today, and the concept was further implanted. It still isn't functional yet.
On 2021 Tuesday September 21st, this projects README.md file was updated, and it received its own website.
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This sticker is supported by the Free Software Foundation. I never intend to include DRM in my works.
I am ussing the abbreviation "Digital Restrictions Management" instead of the more known "Digital Rights Management" as the common way of addressing it is false, there are no rights with DRM. The spelling "Digital Restrictions Management" is more accurate, and is supported by Richard M. Stallman (RMS) and the Free Software Foundation (FSF)
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