Redox OS Making Progress On RISC-V Support, Eyes QEMU & Neovim Ports

The Redox OS open-source Rust-written operating system project has published their September 2024 status update.

There continues being a lot of exciting work going into this open-source "Rust OS" project. During the month of September were a number of Redox OS kernel improvements including better panic stack trace handling, reducing the size of some CPU-specific code, better time precision, POSIX signals work, and other improvements. USB xHCI continues to be worked on for Redox OS and bringing the driver into compliance and getting it working on real hardware.

Redox OS's Relibc C library implementation has seen merged support for real-time POSIX signals, endian function support, poll behavior more closely matching the Linux system call, and other changes.

There's also been work on the RISC-V port of Redox OS with the port being started and improvements submitted for the Redox toolchain.

September did bring the release of Redox OS 0.9 with a multitude of improvements. Rounding out the fun is hopes that QEMU will soon be ported to Redox OS. Neovim is also being ported over to Redox OS.

More details on the September happenings for Redox OS via the Redox-OS.org blog.