Re[2]: [Altosdev-kernel] Eh...

[Kernel P. <rzh...@he...>]

Hello, Alexey.

On Tuesday, March 12, 2002 at 9:46:26 PM you wrote:

AM> No one answer about GUI organization. I wrote it several days ago.
It's not in the Docs section. Do you mean you posted it here? ..Well,
anyway, GUI will come later.. We first have to develop a kernel.. I've
started many-many weeks ago.. I'm having minor problems, but that
doesn't matter much..

I mean, we can spend years on just thinking on it (as it is with
another project I'm involved in now; not years.. but long enough to be
irritating..).

What about actually writing? Coding stuff? You know.. Compiling..
Linking.. etc =) .

The general idea is to get a simple kernel running now.. (wait, we
have to write it yet..).. I've done a simple kernel with memory
management routines (malloc, free..) and a console, but am now stuck
with djgpp.. LD doesn't link the kernel as it should.. there appear to
be overlapping segments there.. Well, that doesn't matter much, I hope
I'll cope with that.. But I'm waiting for input from others (it's an
ELF file built under DJGPP with GCC 3.0.4 and bintuils 2.11.2; it
builds ok under FreeBSD 4.2)..

You know, developing kernel is not just designing a streams model or
something.. We should actually start writing!! Or it'll get boring
very soon..

I guess, a general approach will be keeping everything not very
complicated.. Rather, simple.. We have a strategy (an OS with streams
as an IPC method), now we have to develop the tactics. My approach now
is doing everything as fast as possible, because if we concentrate on
a certain part too much, we may get stuck in it and never go further.
That means, eveything should be designed well, but not necessarilly
implemented that well. We should get the system working, and only then
think about some optimizations and stuff..

Also, we should know who will write what.. At the moment, we have only
heard a couple of developers here, out of 7 listed at our project's
site. I would like to know what the others' skills are, and what they
can do for the project. We have to somehow distribute our efforts, you
know..

I would love to write the OS-dependant stuff, but I can't do the whole
thing on my own.. So.. anyone willing to help me? Well, anyway, kind
of resumés of all the members are welcome..

Sorry for taking kind of administrating voice =) .. but we may be just
discussing our great model of the OS forever, without writing..

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Regards,
 Kernel Panic                          mailto:rzh...@he...