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From: Daniel R. <cos...@gm...> - 2006-04-10 16:05:59
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Hello, I just added a new tarball to the file-releases. It doesn't yet contain the I/O Apic code, as I ran into some conceptual problems, but it does print all entries of the multiprocessor table, so that the user can at least see something. After a small discussion with Brendan from the mega-tokyo board (www.mega-tokyo.com/forum/index.php?board=1;action=display;threadid=9311) it now seems to me as if the I/O APIC couldn't totaly replace the traditional PIC, at least not if we still want to receive ISA IRQs which are for example used by floppy, keyboard, mouse and RTC. Also remapping the I/O Apic seems to be much more complicated than I originally thought so that I'll have to reconsider the whole thing first. I'll also see if I can add some smaller coding tasks to the tracker list anytime soon. The idea is that such small and local assignments could be done quite easily without having to know all the details of the steadily growing kernel. This should help to make development more parallel as everybody can work on a private module. Apart from that I've started documenting the kernel with umbrello, but it will probably take some time until the diagrams are finished.. regards, Daniel |