Contributing to Ironclad

Thanks for considering contributing to Ironclad, it means a lot.

There are several ways one can help the Ironclad project, from writing and correcting documentation to contributing source code. A great way to help Ironclad as well is sharing it with people that may find it interesting!

Bug reporting

One can report issues at our project’s Codeberg.

If you are experiencing an issue with Ironclad as part of a distribution, like Gloire, we recommend you report it to the distribution, where developers can dig a bit and figure out whether it is an Ironclad issue at all. Issues with Gloire can be reported at the project’s Codeberg.

Finding what to contribute

Here is a list of beginner tasks that may be the starting point for work on Ironclad:

• Add LittleFS support at the kernel level.
• Improve the physical memory allocator at memory-physical.adb/.ads.
• Add SATAPI support to the kernel’s SATA driver.
• Add support for 5 level paging in x86_64-limine’s kernel port.
• Add an EC driver for x86_64-limine’s kernel port.
• Implement support for SMAP in the kernel.
• Improve coredump support.

Alternatively, asking on official communities can be helpful.