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New boot process

After too long without a release, finally I've finished the new boot process of ModulOS.

This new boot process is much better. It's easier to install and update modules. But it's a little bit slower.

All that horrible stuff of generating the startfile, copy it to disk, know the inode number, etc, is gone. Now one just needs some simple steps to create a boot disk.

Was hard work, but it worth the job. As I said before, the development is slower, but it won't stop!

This new boot process has some new things in the start of modules which can be done in two phases: phase 0 with interrupts disabled and phase 1 with interrupts enabled.

Besides that, we have a new interface to handle configuration stuff: CfgManager. This new interface centralizes all system configurations and now it's much easier to access or change them.

As usual, a lot of bugs were fixed too.

I'll be working now on user libraries and some system changes.

Note: the development of ModulOS is slower now because I have to finish my master thesis, but it won't stop!

Posted by Luiz Henrique Shigunov 2002-09-30

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