[Trion-kernel-dev] v0.2 sources -- tarball time!

[Daniel R. <cos...@gm...>]

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