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From: Daniel R. <cos...@gm...> - 2006-06-24 15:31:56
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Hello, Todays update in a way completes the development of the hal-module: All devices required by the nucleus can now be accessed, and the hal-classes have reached a certain level of maturity. This of course doesn't mean that we wouldn't have to add some more details to the hal in the future. There's still the "excutive" missing, that is the part of the nucleus that responds to events (irqs, systemcalls, etc) and implements the most basic kernel mechanisms (ipc, scheduling, etc). It will be based on the hal aswell as the "object"-classes, which we'll thus have to develop now. The object-part basically defines the kernel's run-time memory-management by providing list and tree classes, which will be used to store the kernel's data-structures (access right, task-blocks, etc). As I'll from now on focus on the memory-classes, and thus won't touch the hal-code in quite some time, I decided to clean it up a bit. Hopefully the new, more object-oriented style will be a bit more readable: Not only for you, but also for me when I return to the hal-code in a few months ;) regards, Daniel |