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rcore-os / rCore

rCore

Rust version of THU uCore OS. Linux compatible.

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2Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
3.7KGitHub stars
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What it is

Rust version of THU uCore OS. Linux compatible.

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Where it is used

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What people are saying

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Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 3:56:07 PM UTC.

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Observed mentions: 2022-10-04 11:11:33 UTC to 2026-06-08 15:53:52 UTC.

012022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20222023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments20242025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments. Incomplete calendar period.2026*

* An incomplete calendar period is marked with an outlined bar. Its count is not directly comparable with a full period.

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20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
2026 (partial)2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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To my knowledge, there’s nothing on RISC‑V that’s equivalent to WOS in the "from‑scratch, bare‑metal bring‑up" sense (MMU, interrupt controller, exception levels, etc.). However, there are several advanced Rust projects on RISC‑V, but they focus on higher‑level OS features rather than the low‑level hardware bring‑up. For instance: - rCore — teaching OS in Rust: https://github.com/rcore-os/rcore - TockOS — Rust microkernel with RISC‑V support: https://github.com/tock/tock - RustSBI — SBI runtime (not an OS): https://github.com/rustsbi/rustsbi - xv6-riscv-rust — Rust port of xv6: https://github.com/garentyler/xv6-riscv These projects are more "advanced" in terms of OS features (processes, syscalls, userland), but none of them do the full low‑level bring‑up that WOS does on ARM64 (not to what I know of). So the space is still
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wide open if someone wants to do a true from‑scratch RISC‑V kernel in Rust.
In WOS: a Rust ARM64 kernel from scratch with MMU and GICv2 working
rcore-os [0] uses a rust-lang port of zircon [1], the kernel that fuschia-os uses. zircon isn't quite a microkernel, but is pretty close to one [2]. FreeRTOS [3] bundles in a microkernel [4]. Speaking of FreeRTOS, you may also be interested in Riot OS developer's blog entry on building a (micro?) kernel [5]. [0] https://github.com/rcore-os/rCore [1] https://github.com/rcore-os/zCore [2] https://archive.is/Y49Ih [3] https://github.com/FreeRTOS/FreeRTOS-Kernel [4] https://archive.is/u8Hsw [5] https://archive.is/0MHF1
In Ask HN: Examples of Microkernels?

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