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.
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))
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.
