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- Separate the keyboard and RTC drivers into their own files (instead of just sitting in interrupt.asm) - Move screen functions to a new console driver

IanSeyler

Virtio drivers

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Add Virtio network support for running BareMetal in some VMs. http://wiki.libvirt.org/page/Virtio PCI ID is 0x1AF4:0x1000 - http://pci-ids.ucw.cz/read/PC/1af4/1000 Specs: http://docs.oasis-open.org/virtio/virtio/v1.0/virtio-v1.0.pdf Legacy specs: http://ozlabs.org/~rusty/virtio-spec/virtio-0.9.5.pdf Some example C code: http://dox.ipxe.org/virtio-net_8c_source.html

IanSeyler

Add API functions to assign work to each CPU core individually. Not as simple as the work queue but will be handy once NUMA comes into play. Todo: - Remove...

IanSeyler

Secure the kernel - Use 4K pages with read-only Crashes in user code must be recoverable

IanSeyler

The kernel uses a non-standard way of passing variables to internal functions. The AMD64 ABI should be investigated to see if it is a good fit. From the [AMD64 ABI](http://www.x86-64.org/documentation/abi.pdf):...

IanSeyler

Some comments on the NVME implementation

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First of all, the [NVME code](https://github.com/ReturnInfinity/BareMetal/blob/master/src/drivers/storage/nvme.asm) has been a great help for me to develop my own driver for my toy OS. It's well documented and well written. I did...

freewilll

The AHCI driver only uses 512B sectors. ID should be checked to see if support for larger sectors is supported. Check bit 12 of word 106 first to see if...

IanSeyler

The 10gbit i8259x driver can send packets but receive is currently not working.

IanSeyler

Indexed jump to the opted function

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Beautifully arranged `b_system_table:` Thank You!

isoux

With PS/2 on its way out we should ideally add a USB HID driver. Mass Storage would be handy as well.

IanSeyler