The FreeDOS-32 Documentation

Since the preliminar planning and during the FreeDOS-32 development, we have made efforts to provide documentation for our work. The FreeDOS-32 Documentation is intended for those people who want to learn and use the features of FreeDOS-32 (or some specific part of it), study the source code or contribute to the FreeDOS-32 development. We hope you find this documentation helpful.

Sections

About
Informative documents about the FreeDOS-32 project.

Specifications
These documents are evolving specifications describing the technical details on how FreeDOS-32 should work and the design goals.

The FreeDOS-32 kernel
These documents describe the internals of the small core of FreeDOS-32.

Modules and drivers
These documents describe the modules and drivers that can be loaded at run time to add functionality to FreeDOS-32.

How to...
The "How to..." documents include step by step instructions to perform common tasks.

Doxygen-generated documentation
A set of HTML pages automatically generated from the source code using the Doxygen tool.

Full Table of Contents

• About
  • Project overview
  • FAQ
• Specifications
  • System Specification
  • Kernel Specification
  • Drivers Specification
  • Standards compliance
  • Coding guidelines
  • LEAN File System specifications
• The FreeDOS-32 kernel
  • The boot code
  • Device manager
  • The DynaLink dynamic linker
  • File System
  • Logging Subsystem
  • Physical Memory Manager
• Modules and drivers
  • Unicode Support library
  • Native Language Support
  • The BIOSDisk disk driver
  • CMOS Clock driver
  • Console handler
  • DPMI Driver services
  • FAT driver
  • Floppy driver
  • Keyboard driver
  • Serial Mouse driver
• How to...
  • ...boot FreeDOS-32
  • ...get the source code from SVN
  • ...set up DJGPP
  • ...compile FreeDOS-32
• Other
  • Release notes for 0.0.3
  • Release notes for 0.0.2
  • The GNU Free Documentation License