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| author | Amlal El Mahrouss <amlal.elmahrouss@icloud.com> | 2024-01-06 09:14:11 +0100 |
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| committer | Amlal El Mahrouss <amlal.elmahrouss@icloud.com> | 2024-01-06 09:14:11 +0100 |
| commit | 5339d016c07bf717ee388f4feb73544087324af0 (patch) | |
| tree | 94be6f67ed626091f24aee24ec3b3be03d01e4e7 /SPECS | |
git: port from mercurial repo.
Signed-off-by: Amlal El Mahrouss <amlal.elmahrouss@icloud.com>
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@@ -0,0 +1,43 @@ +=================================== +0: Generic Information +=================================== + +- ABI/Format: Portable Executable Format. +- Architecture: Microkernel. +- Language: C++/C/Assembly (AMD64, ARC, 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. + +==================================== +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. + +=================================== +4: The RunTime Kit +=================================== + +It is a C API, they're mostly system calls, use this to make hCore +optimizations. + + |
