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-# 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
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* 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 ;-)