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| author | Amlal El Mahrouss <amlal.elmahrouss@icloud.com> | 2025-03-23 19:13:48 +0100 |
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| committer | Amlal El Mahrouss <amlal.elmahrouss@icloud.com> | 2025-03-23 19:15:17 +0100 |
| commit | a13e1c0911c0627184bc38f18c7fdda64447b3ad (patch) | |
| tree | 073a62c09bf216e85a3f310376640fa1805147f9 /docs/SPECIFICATION_KERNEL.md | |
| parent | 149fa096eb306d03686b3b67e813cf1a78e08cd0 (diff) | |
meta(kernel): Reworked repository's filesystem structure.
Removing useless parts of the project too.
Signed-off-by: Amlal El Mahrouss <amlal.elmahrouss@icloud.com>
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diff --git a/docs/SPECIFICATION_KERNEL.md b/docs/SPECIFICATION_KERNEL.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..2cdee1f0 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/SPECIFICATION_KERNEL.md @@ -0,0 +1,63 @@ +=================================== + +# 0: General Information + +=================================== + +- ABI and Format: PEF/PE32+. +- Kernel architecture: Portable hybrid Kernel. +- Language: C++/(Assembly (AMD64, X64000, X86S, ARM64, POWER, RISCV)) + +=================================== + +# 1: The Kernel + +=================================== + +- Drive/Device Abstraction. +- SMP, Preemptive Multi Threading. +- Separation of Files/Devices. +- Networking. +- Hardware Abstraction Layer. +- Native Filesystem support (NeFS, FAT32 and ffs2). +- Program Loaders interfaces. +- TLS (Thread Local Storage) support. +- BinaryMutex, Locks, Timers. +- Canary mechanisms. +- Dynamic Sys. +- Cross Platform. +- Permission Selectors. + +=================================== + +# 2: The Filesystem + +=================================== + +- Catalog object with associated forks. +- Large storage support. +- Long file names. +- UNIX path style. + +================================== + +# 3: Common naming conventions: + +================================== + +- Kernel -> ke_init_x +- RunTime -> rt_copy_mem +- Hal -> hal_foo_bar +- Class methods -> Class::FooBar + +=================================== + +# 4: The BootZ + +=================================== + +- Capable of booting from a network drive. +- Loads a PE file which is the Kernel. +- Sanity checks, based on the number of sections. +- Handover compliant. +- Does check for a valid partition (useful in the case of recovering) |
