RE: [elysium-developers] PCT

[Kasper V. L. <ve...@da...>]

> > [snipped something about the bug]
> You guessed it! Whats next on the TODO?

Well, Bastiaan, Claus, Jakob, and I are working on improving the web site
considerably, but unfortunately the site isn't quite done yet. I think we
should start writing some floppy driver code. Right now all applications
have full access to all ports so it should be fairly easy to do a simple
floppy disk driver. Once the floppy driver code is working we could
implement a basic filesystem (such as FAT12) on top of it. Other hot topics
would drivers for network adapters....

We need to get some people to work on SMP support. IMHO it has quite high
priority, and I would be delighted to see - at least - the APIC CPU
detection routines in a few weeks. I know Jakob is willing to do some work
on this part of kernel, but he'll probably need help. Anyone?

I'll be working on a kernel specification in the near future, and the plan
is to have a full specification in 2 or 3 weeks. The specification will
describe and explain the implementation of all the features the kernel
currently lacks. I probably need help writing this specification.

The kernel currently lacks support for:
* protection of resources, such as physical pages
* capabilities (related to the previous entry)
* protection of individual I/O ports
* SMP
* .... ?

/Kasper