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Justin C. Miller 3bcd83f5a3 Notes update
2019-02-17 23:38:40 -08:00

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Design / WIP notes

TODO

  • Paging manager
    • Copy-on-write pages
    • Better page-allocation model?
  • Allow for more than one IOAPIC in ACPI module
    • The objects get created, but GSI lookup only uses the one at index 0
  • mark kernel memory pages global
  • Serial out based on circular/bip biffer and interrupts, not spinning on write_ready()
  • Split out more code into kutil for testing
  • AHCI / MSI interrupts on Vbox break?
  • FXSAVE to save XMM registers.
    • optimization using #NM (0x7) to detect SSE usage
  • Clean up of process memory maps
  • Better stack tracer
  • Bootloader rewrite
    • C++ and sharing library code for ELF, initrd, etc
    • Parse initrd and pre-load certain ELF images, eg the process loader process?
    • Do initial memory bootstrap?
  • Calling global ctors
  • Device Tree
    • Actual serial driver
    • Disk driver
      • File system
  • Multiprocessing
    • Fast syscalls using syscall/sysret

Build

  • Clean up build generator and its templates
    • More robust objects to represent modules & targets to pass to templates
    • Read project setup from a simple JSON/TOML/etc
    • Better compartmentalizing when doing template inheritance
  • Move to LLD as sysroot linker