Re:[Eric-develop] IDT

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On 10 Oct 2001, at 2:01, Ismail PAZARBASI wrote:

> Hello,
> 
>   Finally somebody broke the silence :)
> I am working on that RIGHT now! And also a GDT.
> 
> What I ve done?
> * A boot loader, that can drive into Protected Mode
I would like to use a multiboot loader for this, It is already in pmode.
> * Bootloader is generating a scratch GDT
> * Load kernel, and put its own GDT written in C
> * Load the IDT, and write some functions for some stuff
> * And I can now handle the keyboard too :)))
Could you commit the changes/send me the source to work on.
> 
> The difficult thing here, is the multithread thing. I am working on 
> that, also. I am tring to make the generic kObject, and a kMsg class, 
> which will help us maintaining the kernel stuff. e.g. we have a
> 
> KASSERT(condition) macro, which returns true, or false. If somehow it 
> returns false, we don't need to panic. I am considering about "How to 
> help user to solve the trouble". So, I think kernel message handling 
> can be a comprehensive guide about this thought.
I'm working on a bug in the screen class where if you call it in two 
functions, the second one clears the screen with none of the 
changes from the first. I will most likely use a global class where 
all the settings will be stored.
> 
> PS: What about Gavin?
I think he took a trip to europe on the Eurostar.


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