Google's Magenta / Fuchsia

This project is designed to share some notes on Google's Magenta / Fuchsia Operating system.

Roughly speaking, Magenta is the kernel and core operating system services, and Fuchsia is the larger ecosystem built on top of Magenta. Magenta's microkernel provides limited support for device busses, for processes and threads, and for IPC. Servers and libraries build on this to provide traditional operating system services such as device drivers, files, filesystems, network sockets, and shared libraries. This layer also provides some of the niceties expected in a modern operating system, such as shell and utilities. Fuchsia builds on this base to provide (stuff about ephemeral code from the network, sandboxing, post-API, language neutral, graphical environment, etc).

Magenta and Fuchsia are in development and evolving rapidly. These notes are my attempt at documenting a moving target. Its possible some details are wrong and very likely that they will become wrong.

Notes

• Magenta Overview
  • Syscalls
  • DevMgr
  • FileSystem
• BuildNotes

References

• General Fuchsia docs
• Magenta specific docs