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| author | Amlal El Mahrouss <amlal.elmahrouss@icloud.com> | 2024-01-29 22:38:43 +0100 |
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| committer | Amlal El Mahrouss <amlal.elmahrouss@icloud.com> | 2024-01-29 22:38:43 +0100 |
| commit | a8c17ccd6d97cc78830917dc6282b040b21ba16c (patch) | |
| tree | 2181e96ccf9c89c677d2208661bce5584a667470 /SPECIFICATION.TXT | |
| parent | 78861f1b16f18a85e9f6890e16eb320412b6ab80 (diff) | |
Kernel: Update SPECS and TODO list.
Cleaned up the SPECS to get into the point.
Current Task: Load kernel into memory.
Signed-off-by: Amlal El Mahrouss <amlal.elmahrouss@icloud.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'SPECIFICATION.TXT')
| -rw-r--r-- | SPECIFICATION.TXT | 59 |
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 42 deletions
diff --git a/SPECIFICATION.TXT b/SPECIFICATION.TXT index 504e1278..0b2238e7 100644 --- a/SPECIFICATION.TXT +++ b/SPECIFICATION.TXT @@ -2,55 +2,30 @@ 0: Generic Information =================================== -- ABI/Format: Portable Executable Format. +- ABI/Format: PEF/PE32+. - Architecture: Microkernel. -- Language: C++/C/Assembly (AMD64, X64000, X86S, ARM64) +- Language: C++/(Assembly (AMD64, X64000, X86S, ARM64)) =================================== 1: The HCore Microkernel =================================== -HCore mounts NewFS by default, a journal filesystem meant for GUI use. -It makes use of a concept named 'Fork' -It contains data about a specific 'Catalog' - -Programs are load using the PEF. PEF is a multiplatform container -for executables/shared libraries. Dwarf is used for debugging. - -HCore has SMP in it's core with a preemptive multi-threaded scheduler. -It also supports dynamic loading of symbols and has a rich driver system. - -==================================== -2: The GUI Kit -==================================== - -We have a Look and Feel system, to support custom application themes. -CWindowLookAndFeel interface takes care of that. - -=================================== -3: The System Kit -=================================== - -We use C++ for this API, use it when dealing with C++ code. For C use RTKit. -It is the unstable APIs with RTKit, they change a lot. - -Use the App Subsystem to create apps. - -=================================== -4: The RunTime Kit -=================================== - -It is a C API, they're mostly system calls, use this to make hCore -optimizations. - +- Drive Abstraction. +- SMP, Preemptive MT. +- Separation of Files/Devices. +- Networking. +- Hardware Abstraction Layer. +- Native Filesystem support (NewFS). +- Program Loader. +- TLS. +- Dynamic Libraries. +- Cross platform code (it has to work for each platform) =================================== -5: The New Filesystem +2: The Filesystem =================================== -Based on HFS+ design of catalogs and forks, it is designed with journaling and recovery in mind. -It's going to take advantage of the disk hardware. - -Such as RAID for NVME. - -SPECS: +- Catalog based with forks. +- Large storage support. +- Long file names. +- UNIX path style. |