This is a bit of a hack. /dev is presented as a new pseudo file type
until I finish the VFS overhaul. This fake file presents a directory
with entries for all of the VFS nodes that are children of it. The
future VFS will do this on its own, thus making this superfluous.
There's a lot here, so let's through it:
- Lots of work to include a symbol table in the kernel. We can't rely on
our bootloader to give us our own ELF information, so we do this
separately. This probably should be changed to output a C source
rather than assembly, but that's a TODO.
- Makefile can now generate modules. It works basically the same way any
other kernel object works, expect with a slightly different linking
scheme.
- Commands have been added to the debug shell to load modules, but they
don't work yet - still need to get through relocation and linking.
- Commands have been added to the debug shell to print the symbol list,
as well as print symbol values (but note that printing symbol values
is kinda dangerous if you don't know what they are, so don't just go
printing things willy-nilly).
This is still a work in progress. ext2 writes are quite broken, so they
have been completely disabled, but there's a new tmpfs mounted to /tmp
that you can try to poke at. I'm still fixing up quirks in the VFS that
make it incompatible with a bunch of stuff, but I did manage to write
some files with vim, and swap files appear to be working at least
somewhat. It's all still broken as fuck.
* login should set some environment variables now
* init should start terminals as login shells, so --single doesn't really
mean "single user" any more, just sorta single terminal session
* system() should work now since esh now accepts -c; not that vim is
still going to be unhappy because it does crazy shit.
