Raspberry Pi Bare Bones

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This is a tutorial on operating systems development on the Raspberry Pi. This will serve as an example of how to create a minimal system, but not as an example of how to properly structure your project.

You are about to begin development of a new operating system. Perhaps one day, your new operating system can be developed under itself. This is a process known as bootstrapping or going self-hosted. However, that is way into the future. Today, we simply need to set up a system that can compile your operating system from an existing operating system. This is a process known as cross-compiling and this makes the first step in operating systems development.

This article assumes you are using a Unix-like operating system such as Linux which supports operating systems development well. Windows users should be able to complete it from a MinGW or Cygwin environment.