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diff --git a/doc/roadmap.md b/doc/roadmap.md index fb5b8b2..a8871ae 100644 --- a/doc/roadmap.md +++ b/doc/roadmap.md @@ -1,12 +1,15 @@ -# Roadmap +Roadmap +======= -## Plans for soon +Plans for soon +-------------- * Write device drivers : keyboard, FAT (or EXT2 ?) * Work on userland : init, terminal emulator, shell -* GUI server with help from kernel for framebuffer management +* GUI server (with help from kernel for framebuffer management ?) -## Things to design +Things to design +---------------- * Reclaiming physical memory : - Freeing some cached stuff, ie swapping pages from mmap regions @@ -16,23 +19,24 @@ * 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 -* access mode - and non-position-dependant read/write calls & seek call) + access mode and non-position-dependant read/write calls & seek call) * Better error reporting for system calls that fail -## Things not sure +Things not sure +--------------- * VFS thread safety : is the design correct ? (probably) * Cache architecture (called *pager*, after 4.4BSD terminology) * Not enough tests! -## Plans for the later future +Plans for the later future +-------------------------- * Define a format for "packages", i.e. read-only 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 -* Module system for extending the kernel In userspace, simple Scheme-like -* scripting language POSIX compatibility layer, self-hosting OS The obvious -* stuff ;-) + adding system components or apps to the OS ; make sure to implement it in a way + that does not waste memory +* Module system for extending the kernel In userspace +* simple Scheme-like scripting language +* POSIX compatibility layer, self-hosting OS +* The obvious stuff ;-) |