Coremark is hardware testing & performance analysis platform. Coremak is built-on it's own kernel letting stable test results & direct access to hardware.
STATUS
Right now, the project is in very early pre-alpha stage. The kernel can boot up right now and accomplish very basic tests.
BENCHMARK SUBYSTEM
In other benchmark tools, if you look at their structure you'll see it's similar to;
But as coremark is based on it's own kernel, coremark is very simple compared to them in design.
DEVELOPMENT
Coremark started as graduation project and developed in a private SVN repository. After presentations and achieved early-alpha stage, project became publicly accessible on SourceForge? as open-source project.
DOCUMENTATION
For documentation checkout the sources and /doc subdirectory in the repository.