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diff --git a/microkernel/mach/gnumach/projects.mdwn b/microkernel/mach/gnumach/projects.mdwn index 1c45d169..e0b6572c 100644 --- a/microkernel/mach/gnumach/projects.mdwn +++ b/microkernel/mach/gnumach/projects.mdwn @@ -31,78 +31,79 @@ so that no duplicate efforts end up. # Task List -* [[Clean_up_the_code]] + * [[Clean_up_the_code]] -* Update the core architecture and drivers + * Update the core architecture and drivers - * Check what NetBSD, FreeBSD and Linux do with their host specific code - (i486, PPC, Sparc, ...). And if it might be wise to take that and use it - in GNU Mach. There is no need to worry about purely internal API's, but - the external ones shouldn't require any major changes. + * Check what NetBSD, FreeBSD and Linux do with their host specific code + (i486, PPC, Sparc, ...). And if it might be wise to take that and use + it in GNU Mach. There is no need to worry about purely internal API's, + but the external ones shouldn't require any major changes. - * Write a list of all functions provided by the host dependant code in GNU - Mach that gets used in the non-host specific code (kernel, IPC and VM). + * Write a list of all functions provided by the host dependant code in + GNU Mach that gets used in the non-host specific code (kernel, IPC and + VM). - * Once we have decided what the new internal API should look like, make a - list of the new API and the old one, and try to make things as compatible - as possible, but not at the expense of anything. + * Once we have decided what the new internal API should look like, make a + list of the new API and the old one, and try to make things as + compatible as possible, but not at the expense of anything. -* Implement Migrating Threads + * Implement Migrating Threads - * Migrating Threads (MT) could improve IPC performance and making easier the - work of the scheduler. For more information, check - <http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/sf94/ford.html> + * Migrating Threads (MT) could improve IPC performance and making easier + the work of the scheduler. For more information, check + <http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/sf94/ford.html> -* Improve the external pagers interface + * Improve the external pagers interface - * Making this interface synchronous should improve I/O performance - significantly, without (almost) any drawbacks (we also get some advantage - from MT's). + * Making this interface synchronous should improve I/O performance + significantly, without (almost) any drawbacks (we also get some + advantage from MT's). - * Implement more paging eviction policies, so they fit better with usual - behaviour of the pagers. + * Implement more paging eviction policies, so they fit better with usual + behaviour of the pagers. - * Implement resource accounting for external pagers. + * Implement resource accounting for external pagers. -* VM + * VM - * Put it on user level (?) + * Put it on user level (?) - * Clean up the mess. + * Clean up the mess. - * Provide a fast way to read/write from/to a memory object. + * Provide a fast way to read/write from/to a memory object. - * Simplify/normalise the code. + * Simplify/normalise the code. -* Simplify the IPC Semantics + * Simplify the IPC Semantics - * There are a lot of things in GNU Mach's IPC that we don't need. Track down - those things, and get rid of them without requiring many changes in the - Hurd (the changes will affect MiG, but that is OK). + * There are a lot of things in GNU Mach's IPC that we don't need. Track + down those things, and get rid of them without requiring many changes + in the Hurd (the changes will affect MiG, but that is OK). -* Temporary mappings for Client-Server memory transfers + * Temporary mappings for Client-Server memory transfers - * Extend Mach's IPC to provide some kind of object which can represent a - range of memory that can temporarily be mapped into the servers address - space for sending/receiving data. This would allow us to avoid excessive - memory copies. + * Extend Mach's IPC to provide some kind of object which can represent a + range of memory that can temporarily be mapped into the servers address + space for sending/receiving data. This would allow us to avoid + excessive memory copies. - * Find a new way to work with unaligned memory. + * Find a new way to work with unaligned memory. -* GDB remote debugging support + * GDB remote debugging support - * Implement support for GDB debugging via serial line and/or network. Maybe - this can be done together with the host-specific work above. + * Implement support for GDB debugging via serial line and/or network. + Maybe this can be done together with the host-specific work above. See [[GDB_stubs]]. # Wish List -* Interface for userspace non-critical drivers. + * Interface for userspace non-critical drivers. -* Sound Support + * Sound Support -* WLAN support (ipw2200) with WEP/WPA + * WLAN support (ipw2200) with WEP/WPA -* ACPI support + * ACPI support |