* 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).
- libc functions not implemented yet
- see `env` for an example of reading variables
- see `esh` for an example of how to set and maintain variables for
sending to other applications
Both of the above will be the basis for the libc implementation.
* 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.
This is in favor of bootloader-assisted mode switching. Grub has a
wonderful option we will exploit to set the video mode.
My laptop supports a couple of 32-bit video modes, which is nice,
because I'm not support 24-bit modes.
I'm not sure whether the super-sketchy video memory locator will work
in the real world, but we'll find out sometime soon.
The compositor itself still needs work, but the compositing engine
within now does full blitting and is faster than the old method.
Transparency is now supported properly, though telling the compositor to
use it on a window will degrade performance. One terminal is usually
okay, and everything runs faster than it did before; two terminals is
pushing it; three will make you very sad. The stacking logic has also
been updated. Presumably, alpha blitting for transparent windows could
be done with SIMD instructions and be extremely fast.
All graphics libraries have also been updated to (hopefully) work
properly with alpha bits.
* Also cleaning up some kernel logging options here.
* You can log in as local or root with passwords local and toor
* Graphical sessions are still buggy, so don't kill that terminal.
* Finally bring syscall.h up to speed and include all syscalls in the
syscall module of the C library.
* Remove the third-party obfuscated C demos (we have nyancat, good
enough)
* Fix userspace apps to build without complaining about undeclared
strtok_r by disable __STRICT_ANSI__
* Fix .eh_frame by including the proper stuff with libgcc.
- Can now register a userspace file descriptor as the output for kernel
print statements through kprintf()
- Can set logging levels for debug print messages, which are separate
from kernel log events and meant to be more readily visible. Log
events are recorded in a buffer to be viewed later, though nothing
actually using logging at the moment.
- Serial output is disabled by default now. You can enable it yourself
by appending the logtoserial argument to the kernel on boot.
This is an automated system by which we boot qemu headless and use the
serial line to capture output from a testing application that is started
on bootup, running with the VGA terminal shell. This might be expanded
to boot to the graphical display within VNC and perform more advanced
tests with the Python shim using a VNC module for Python; we'll see.
We know longer accept DAMAGE and REDRAW commands. Instead, we just loop
and redraw everything anyway (efficiently, mind you). Pipes still have
issues when closed and various other different things.
Completely removes:
* The kernel terminal (both VGA and graphical)
* The kernel ANSI parser (obviously)
* kgets() function
* Dozens of other functions that were made useless
Adds:
* Userspace terminal that should work (relatively) well
* Keyboard device driver (implemented with a "pipe" object)
* Stabalized interrupt interface
* `clear` uses the c library
* All panic screens and kprintf() output goes to the serial line ONLY
* The kernel boots directly into /bin/terminal (no arguments, unless you
want to add them (such as -f))
... handling any interrupt service routines.
This was causing crashes while running /userspace/ apps without any
syscalls being triggered, presumably due to switching at awkward times.
BIOS execution is provided through the `v8086` module, which provides
software emulation of an 8086 processor. It is not currently working
with some BIOSes and may (read: probably will be) replaced with another
emulator (x86emu comes to mind) at some point in the near future. In the
meantime, the default video mode for QEMU works with this and it's
enough to get us on real VESA instead of fake VBE. The `bochs` module
will be renamed in a future commit. Userspace programs have been
adjusted to work at bitrates other than 32 *POORLY*. If you write pixels
left-to-right, they should work fine. They only work with 24-bpp
otherwise, and then you need to be careful of what pixels you are
writing when, or you will overwrite things in other pixels.
You may pass a commandline argument like the following to set display
modes:
vid=vesa,1024,768
Or for stranger modes under QEMU or Bochs, use the bochs VBE
initializer:
vid=bochs,1280,720
Note that the address of the linear framebuffer is still found via
hackish probing instead of PCI or trusting the VBE information, so if
you have things in the wrong memory ranges (0xE0000000+), be prepared to
have them get read.
Once again, this entire commit is a massive hack. I am happy that it
worked, and I will continue to make it less hacky, but in the meantime,
this is what we've got.
Happy holidays.
