caused interrupts to be reenabled (due to unlock), which caused a race. The
problems were especially visible on slower machines.
* Relocated free memory parsing to process manager. This saved quite some
code at the kernel level. Text size was reduced by about 650 bytes.
* Removed locks for updating the realtime in the clock's main loop and the
get_uptime function. Interrupts are no longer reentrant, so realtime is
immediately updated.
Reduced kernel size by 512KB by moving private buffer into cstart() function.
Replaced assertions with erroneous return values. Removed assertions relating
to isuserp(rp), since all processes should become user processes; system
processes are now treated similar to other processes.
need /tmp any more since 16MB root device; increase to 3.0.5 to make new
CD with working FXP driver. (not tagged 3.0.5 yet as at driver bios-copy
workaround hasn't been done.)
* Removed some variants of the SYS_GETINFO calls from the kernel;
replaced them with new PM and utils libary functionality. Fixed
bugs in utils library that used old get_kenv() variant.
* Implemented a buffer in the kernel to gather random data.
Memory driver periodically checks this for /dev/random.
A better random algorithm can now be implemented in the driver.
Removed SYS_RANDOM; the SYS_GETINFO call is used instead.
* Remove SYS_KMALLOC from the kernel. Memory allocation can now
be done at the process manager with new 'other' library functions.
. no more kmalloc
. no more umaps + physcopies / abscopies
. the status register is directly readable from the drivers own
address space now, and no physcopy is needed to read it
. map+physcopy call combinations are replaced by vircopy calls
names. All system processes can now either use panic() or report() from
libutils, or redefine their own function. Assertions are done via the standard
<assert.h> functionality.
using phys_copy to copy zeroes there for every kb), which is a big
optimisation in some cases
fixed a bug that was introduced when function keys became notifies
when lock timing is enabled in minix/config.h.
Added phys_zero() routine to klib386.s that zeroes a range of memory, and
added corresponding system call.
timeout). A fix is to treat the alarm and interrupt cases differently and
only call the interrupt handler when an actual interrupt has been seen. No
apparent adverse effects.
This allowed removing the p_flagarlm timer from the kernel's process table.
Furthermore, I merged p_syncalrm and p_signalrm into p_alarm_timer to save
even more space. Note that processes can no longer have both a signal and
synchronous alarm timer outstanding as of now.
initial 1-line scroll at last line. If clearing screen in trailer of boot
monitor is disabled, all previous boot monitor and console messages are
preserved on rebooting.
All that's needed now is a scrollback buffer to see all old messages..
(Even from the boot monitor, bios, previous boots...)
so the list of programs in the image and their sizes can be seen before the
kernel starts filling the screen.
Added some formatting fixes in installboot and boot monitor itself,
some of the segments were larger than the formatting allowed.
