LionelSambuc

This page contains my wishlist / tasks I am working on as well as some random notes.

Here is an overview of the current status of the task I am currently working on.

• Some cleanup in the struct messages we are using, especially the ones which are exchanged between userland and the servers. It is done with a few exception which are not userland facing, and the exception of USB-related services.

The following is as much a todo list as random notes.

• Wiki
  • Document
  • Cross-building & Building
  • NetBooting
  • Using SharedLibs

• Kyua Import does not run on ARM yet.

• PKGSRC
  • Currently fails to build
    • icu on clang based builds
    • gdk-pixbuf2
    • gtk2
    • gmp on clang based builds, up to gcc45
    • p5-Module-Build

• Toolchains
  • Check LDFLAGS
  • Check _PROGLDOPTS
  • ARM
    • GOLD patch for ARM?

• LWIP
  • dhcp
  • bind
  • Remove INET
  • dhclient

• Build System Upgrade
  • Check Targets install, sourcesets
  • Target syspkgs does not work
  • Check Target iso-image-source
  • Check Targets release | iso-image | live-image (HD image) | install-image
  • Create proper sets (base, etc, man, and so on) with packages
  • Generate ISO from build System

• Dynamic base system?
• Soft RT?
• Kernel threads?
• Efficient SMP?

• Fix DT_TEXTREL warning

• ARM
  • Console over Framebuffer
  • Hard FP support and ensure:
    • -march=armv7-a
    • -mfloat=hard
    • -mfpu=vfpv3-d16
  • Domain IDs for main servers + Mappings in User processes
  • ASID tagging (Beng's patch may be ok now?)

• INTEL/x86_32
  • VGA/VESA Framebuffer (Higher text resolutions)
  • Console over Framebuffer

In some embedded scenario, there is no need for all the POSIX APIs. I think that given MINIX structure, it should be possible to have a system without even filesystem support for example. In such systems all the functionnality required is simply implemented through a set of specific (and adhoc) services.

Because of interdependencies in our current services (VM, VFS, PM, RS) it is not possible at the moment to reduced the system to a bare minimum of just the microkernel, a few drivers, VM, and RS.

# Server re-organisation, if we aim one day to have a smaller subset without 
# posix support.
# Not possible without right now, the servers have some inter-dependencies.
.
├── devman	# Not sure where to place this, posix or system?
├── input	# ditto
├── posix
│   ├── init
│   ├── ipc
│   ├── pm
│   ├── sched
│   └── vfs
└── system
    ├── ds
    ├── is
    ├── rs
    └── vm

Email: lionel AT SPAM FOR FREE minix3 TEST DOT org