Hi! Thanks for bring this up.
I have been tinkering a lot with a device drivers architecture. See my
e-mail July 24's email entitled Device Drivers & Attributes for some recent
discussion. I have been working on both SharpOS and Ensemble projects. Sharp
is a bottom up design, while Ensemble is a top down design. I will not go
into the pros and cons of each design and implement approached - both have
merits. However, my work at Ensemble is better - but I have been unable to
port it back to SharpOS since the AOT is missing some language
implementations and still has some serious bugs. To be frank, I'm given up
the port due to AOT's limitations until Mike's MOSA compiler is ready.
My personal goal is to include a basic device driver framework and some
drivers included in the MOSA project.
In regards to Redmine, I have a Unix and Linux background - but no
experience with Redmine itself. I had hoped someone with more experience
would volunteer and tackle Redmine's stability issues. (Although, I'm
thinking about trying Redmine on Windows for fun).
-Phil
On Sun, Aug 3, 2008 at 6:13 PM, Bruce Markham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Due to the lack of regularly scheduled development on the project, combined
> with the fact that there has still been development, I was hoping that a few
> of the people involved with changes in the trunk could put together
> summaries of what they have been working on for the last several months.
>
> The majority of commits have been done by tgiphil - and some of those are
> larger than they appear because they are merges from sandboxes. LogicalError
> has also been doing lots of refactoring-type work (based on me just skimming
> through SVN logs since April). And mrfl has been posting some changes. (Is
> that grover?)
>
> I think the best way for us to move forward is for us to get an idea of
> what you guys have been tinkering with. I mean, I can compile and run the
> kernel - and other than some instabilities (which we've always had, but
> they've certainly changed over time it seems), running the kernel in and of
> itself does not reveal much about the changes ("listresources" command is
> fascinating, but sometimes it makes QEmu lock up...). And frankly, I can't
> make heads or tails of the architecture from looking at the code anymore.
> (Which is from enthusiastic efforts on each of you all's parts, but largely
> seemingly uncoordinated.)
>
> So what I'm really asking is - can each of you three, please take some time
> to tell us about your work on SharpOS recently? We have the development
> blog, which has sat untouched since obsethryl's interview. LogicalError
> already has posting priveleges - so if grover (mrfl?) and tgiphil could send
> me, privately, a Google Account alias of yours, (feel free to create one, or
> just send me a personal e-mail of yours that you want to sign in to blogger
> for SharpOS with), I'll get you guys posting privileges.
>
> After which, I would ask that each of you spend the time, say about an
> hour, and write up an article on what you've been working on, and more
> importantly, why. Where it is going. What you want to see happen. And then
> you can e-mail the mailing list to let us know when you are finished,
> (preferably linking to the post), so that we can restore an organic feeling
> of what is going on here.
>
> If you have time for graphics and diagrams, don't let me stop you. However,
> I'm really thinking all we need is baseline textual thoughts. Mention some
> classes you've written, some paradigms you are trying to apply, etc. I'm
> hoping it will make up for a lack of Redmine and
> regularly-attended-and-documented SharpOS meetings for the last 4 months.
>
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