1.5 KiB
1.5 KiB
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.)
Signals and Exceptions
SIGDIAF (Die in a fire)