toaruos/TODO.md

Short-Term Development Targets as of 2011/10/31

Harddisk Support

• Write support for EXT2
• Port EXT2 drivers to IDE read/write (superblock read testing was successful)
• Build a better VFS with support for disk mounting
• Get all of the example binaries onto a hard disk image
• PORT GCC

Operation Viper

• Port ncurses
  • Requires some terminal-related C library functions
• Port Vim
  • Requires directory support
  • Disable command execution?

Development Targets as of 2011/10/21

I/O

• /dev file system
• /dev/fbN and /dev/ttyN for virtual framebuffer terminals and graphics
• /dev/ttyS0 for serial I/O
• Support framebuffer switching via keyboard
• Remove hardcoded special-casing for stdin/stdout/stderr
• SATA read/write drivers (/dev/sdaN)
• /dev/ramdisk (read-only)
• EXT2 write support (including file creation, directory creation, rm, unlink, etc.)
• EXT2 drivers should operate on a /dev/* file
• Mounting of /dev/* files using a filesystem handler
• VFS tree

libc

• Fork newlib
• Changes for newlib should be moved to a git repository
• Fix 64-bit host builds?
• dirent.h support; readdir in kernel
• Entire user-space library set should build from scratch on any compatible system
• Consider working with glib?

GCC

• Port GCC
• Port yasm, make

Task Management

• Fix user-mode fork
• Add user-mode wait (with queues!)
• Signals (signal(), kill(), etc.)