Windows Research Kernel

Recently I had decided that I wish to rewrite the AffinityOS core using the PE executable format, and use Visual C++ instead of GCC. I was looking on Google for examples of kernels using PE. I came accross the Windows Research Kernel, which the web site describes as:

This allowed me to look into how the Windows kernel functions. Also let me see how the Windows kernel is compiled using the Visual C++ compiler and MASM.

I found the web site WRK @ HPI which is a site that talks a lot about the WRK, and I used the howto on that site to add an extra system call to a copy of the WRK. The WRK also includes documents about the various components of the WRK, and I find that they are very informative.

In other news, I have also finished my boot loader for my new kernel, and once I finish commenting the code I should be ready to move onto creating the core of the kernel to test.