Commit Graph

12 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Kevin Lange
a190f9995c shm negotiate comments 2012-02-06 15:37:40 -06:00
Kevin Lange
fdaf53b0c4 [shm] Working on negotiation functions 2012-02-05 19:56:21 -06:00
Kevin Lange
aba36f4dce Reserving syscall numbers for shared memory 2012-02-05 18:12:50 -06:00
Kevin Lange
2e8144493d Bootsplash testing (launches terminal afterwards) 2012-02-03 18:16:47 -06:00
Kevin Lange
339b82e10c [massive commit] Userspace terminal.
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))
2012-01-25 00:19:52 -06:00
Kevin Lange
6b2ee875d4 Interrupts on/off is a semaphore 2012-01-10 19:54:05 -06:00
Kevin Lange
edebb12573 [misc] Boot logging to screen 2011-12-26 19:23:58 -06:00
Kevin Lange
c0f45e0b7f VESA mode switching support.
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.
2011-12-25 00:40:40 -06:00
Kevin Lange
fac669e4c3 [mem] Add facilities to track memory usage (naïvely) 2011-12-15 21:47:46 -06:00
Kevin Lange
021585e9ef [misc] Massive improvements to process handling
- Free process resources when a process exits (reaped in next process
  cycle; should probably reap after a wait() or something)
- Free process struct after wait()
- Fix page allocation
- Fix fork() return value for child process (attempted to write to an
  invalid point in kernel-stack memory)

We shouldn't be triple faulting randomly anymore!

Continue investigating the fork() return value, as there was a bugged
return at some point during executon of a test run of thrash-process.
2011-12-15 17:21:28 -06:00
Kevin Lange
dae4083454 [panic] Updated panic messages 2011-12-15 01:46:22 -06:00
Kevin Lange
8c548c0db0 Restructure directory tree for kernel modules 2011-12-14 22:15:47 -06:00