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.
* 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.
and type) are overwritten with newer flags/ arguments. The interface from
within the kernel is lock_notify(). User processes can make a system call with
notify(). NOTIFY fully replaces the old notification mechanism.
list of handlers, callable by irqctl system call
. workaround for hanging keyboard bug after shutdown.. if key is pressed
during or after shutdown procedure, keyboard stops working. It looks like
irq 1 gets stuck high if no keyboard reading is done (e.g. because the
irq is masked or tty driver has exited). Workaround is to leave irqs
enabled until the last second, and call shutdown() immediately after the
last driver has stopped (tty task). This way the chance of an unserviced
interrupt occuring is negligible.
