We only support 4 total chain entries at the moment, but that can be
"easily expanded"... We don't really have a lite dynamic vector, just
the big fat dynamic lists, so improving on this needs some extra effort.
This commit also drags in a bunch of random network work by necessity.
- The kernel version has been bumped to 0.9.0
- The timer resolution in the kernel has been increased to millseconds.
- The preemptive scheduling interval has been descreased to one
millisecond.
- Relative sleep continues to use 10 millsecond intervals for legacy
reasons.
- `gettimeofday` now uses the internal tick counter to calculate the
current time. Drift is calculated from the CMOS every 5 seconds and
applies only to `gettimeofday` and other places that use it.
- The resolution of timing information provided by debug functions has
been increased to three digits (milliseconds).
- The resolution of timing information provided by the procfs uptime
virtual file has been increased to three digits (milliseconds).
- Functions have been added to the debug shell to read the TSC. The TSC
is not used in timing functions at this time.
WARNING: THIS BREAKS PARTITIONS
Until I get partition maps and can produce device entries like
/dev/hda1, partitions will be broken, so DON'T TRY TO BUILD AN IMAGE
WITH THE IMAGE BUILDER.
Hopefully this is all rectified in under 24 hours...
They now use interrupts and thus can be blocked on without sitting in a
busy loop. Not sure if they still work perfectly, need to debug. Works
fine with the console "serial" stuff in qemu.
Todo: Investigate further.
Address for program loading, kernel heap, userspace SHM regions, and
stacks have been changed.
Delete:
toolchain/build
toolchain/local
.userspace_check
Run:
python userspace/build.py clean
make clean-disk
make clean
./build.sh
and possibly other environments - fixes the long-standing issue with
keyboard/mouse getting disabled sometimes on bootup, especially if you
tried to interact with the qemu window during the boot process
* fix some terminal bugs (some, not all)
* add a serial device to the VFS
* fix up serial so it works better
* add a serial-console application
* fix a bug in some other stuff relating to allocations
* change size of the terminal described by toaru.terminfo
* adds a new system call
I'm trying to get PATA access to work on real hardware (and in
VirtualBox, specifically), but it's not working out well. Unless there's
a major breakthrough tomorrow, I'm going to set it aside for a while.
Kernel driver sends raw scancodes, compositor or terminal handle the
rest. Support for F* keys will be added soon, in the mean time userspace
applications can know about the status of modifiers (control, shift,
alt, and super).
Compositor actions have been changed to Alt+Left Click for move and
Alt+Middle Click for resize. I'll work on adding more mouse events once
I get them to be faster (they're annoyingly slow at the moment... I want
more accuracy and less latency).
* Works with different block sizes
* Works with different inode sizes
* Tested on a real EXT2 file system made with mkfs.ext2
* MBR reading is available
* You can specify a partition with hdd=0 or hdd=1 etc.
* If you make a "real" disk image, you can get GRUB installed in
its MBR, toss in a suitable config file, and boot right off the
disk rather than having to use QEMU to boot the kernel or using
some silly CDROM ramdisk nonsense.
