Banos is a stable WIP C driver API that is supposed to provide a simple
interface to interact with the kernel and load the modules dynamically.
It is WIP and atm this just implements module loading with a custom
banos_install syscall. Banos will not try to substitute parts of the
kernel instead it will just expose kernel functionality via a stable
BINARY API. Meaning binaries (should) remain forward and backward
compatible on a binary level.
Banos modules work similarly to those in linux, you expose symbols via
BANOS_EXPORT which allows you to export a name + addr paired symbol.
It puts it in the .banos-export section. Drivers provide metadata about
themselves in the REQUIRED .banos-driver section. Symbols are resolved
at runtime. The kernel exposes the driver functionality via the same
.banos-export export mechanism.
Banos modules are elf RELOCATABLE files (object files) which have
partial linking (only banos symbols should remain). Modules will
eventually define dependencies, will export symbols and will allow you
to build a complex object hierarchy.
This patch adds the banos_install syscall which takes in the driver
image to install and may only be executed by super users. The API
doesn't validate already loaded modules, as thats something the
userspace MAY choose to keep track of. Multi-instance functionality
shall be implemented via driver specific behaviuor (exposed in the dev
filesystem or some other means).
Modules are supposed to allow you to alter kernel behavior and extend
it, allowing you to create filesystems, drivers, networking
modifications, schedulers, probers, and more (hopefully) whilst
remaining binary compatible with any version of the kernel (again,
hopefully).
Initial step of paging now just prepares fast page for heap, actual page
table initialization happens after heap is initialized which allows
x86_64 to never depend on kmalloc for pages.
Processor's stacks are now also spawned with PMM/VMM allocated stacks
instead of kmalloc identity mapped.
Also add custom load addresses for x86_64 target. This allows qemu to
load the kernel with -kernel argument. Without these addresses qemu
would refuse to load as it only supports 32 bit ELFs, but as our kernel
starts in 32 bit mode anyway, we can just load it!
This cleans up the kernel executable as bootloaders don't have to
load AP init code straight to 0xF000, but it will be moved there once
kernel is doing the AP initialization.
