Keycodes are easier to handle as you need only one keyboard layout
for keycodes. Otherwise you would need to implement keyboard layout
for every keyboard driver in every language.
This code has very ugly file parsing code. I have to create API
for reading files line by line in kernel space...
This allows users to open framebuffer/input files without root.
Mounting has to be moved to userspace soon. It makes no sense to
hard code permissions for every (device) file.
Use this new FramebufferTerminalDriver for terminal instead of the
old VesaTerminalDriver. Only drawback with this is that framebuffer
device can only be intialized after DevFS is initialized.
SATA drives can now be used with banan-os. This allows much faster
disk access (writing 10 MiB from 30s to 1.5s). This can definitely
be optimized but the main slow down is probably the whole disk
structure in the os.
AHCI drive is now the default when running qemu.
MemoryBackedRegion now inherits from this and is used for private
anonymous mappigs. This will make shared mappings and file backed
mappings much easier to implement.
All executable files are now read from disk and paged on demand.
This was a big rewrite of the old ELF library but in the end
everything seems much cleaner, since all the old functionality was
not actually needed for execution.
I have to do some measurements, but I feel like memory usage dropped
quite a bit after this change.
I could delete the whole FixedWidthAllocator as it was now obsolete.
GeneralAllocator is still used by kmalloc. Kmalloc cannot actually
use it since, GeneralAllocator depends on SpinLock and kmalloc runs
without interrupts.
Serial monitors can now be used as a output. This requires editing
init code for the stdio opening. Serial input is not supported, so qemu
still needs graphical window for ps/2 keyboard.
I added a syscall for telling the kernel when signal execution has
finished. We should send a random hash or id to the signal trampoline
that we would include in the syscall, so validity of signal exit can
be confirmed.
We now have DevFileSystem which is derived from RamFileSystem. All
devices are RamInodes. We don't have separate DeviceManager anymore.
To iterate over devices, you can loop througn every inode in devfs.
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