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@@ -104,8 +104,13 @@ running the tests): ### Plans for soon +* Complete process management (implement process exiting, process deletion, waiting, ...) * Implement missing syscalls -* Write device drivers : VGA, keyboard, ATA, FAT, VESA +* Write device drivers : VGA, keyboard, FAT (or EXT2 ?), VESA +* Work on userland +* Define a format for "packages", ie readonly filesystem images used for adding system + components or apps to the OS ; make sure to implement it in a way that does not waste + memory ### Things to design @@ -121,7 +126,6 @@ running the tests): we can always reload them from the disk. - An on-disk file with a page cache must be aware of all the places where the page is mapped, so that it can unmap it when reclaiming pages. - - Simpler model : cached pages cannot be freed while the file is open with `FM_MMAP` * Reclaiming physical memory : - Freeing some cached stuff, ie swapping pages from mmap regions - Swapping pages from processes non-mmap regions (ie real data regions) @@ -132,6 +136,8 @@ running the tests): have the possibility of crashing the system * How does a process transmit information (such as environment, arguments, file descriptors) to its children ? +* How do we do stream-like IO on files ? (ie how do we implement the append acces mode + and non-position-dependant read/write calls & seek call) ### Things not sure @@ -147,5 +153,6 @@ running the tests): None of the source files have a licence header because it's cumbersome. All the code and associated documentation found in this repository is released under -the ISC licence as detailed in the `COPYING` file. +the ISC licence as detailed in the `COPYING` file. Some parts of the code are very +directly inspired from examples found on the OSDev wiki, thank you all! |