 maksw
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d36f19509c
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replace ad hoc driver loading with a proper driver manager, new DDK, new PnP manager with device matching, asynchronous startup, resource ownership and removal, add shared PCI capability helpers, replace typed, rigid services with a proper service manager, implement proper system shutdown and restart, shutting down unloads drivers and shuts down services, add simple power button, remove heavyweight boot self-tests and SMP stress runs, add monotonic timestamps to kernel debug output, fruitless USB and PS/2 fixes, make test builds opt in.
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2026-10-26 10:08:03 +01:00 |
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maksw
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73abd6f90d
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isolate POSIX builds from the host UCRT, wire lwext4 and ntfs-3g as ext4.sys and ntfs.sys, split the FAT driver into directory/file/async/driver/mount units, add posixsrv and dwm plus input/console/desktop syscall clients and a pile of new smoke targets, rename serial.sys to cereal.sys, name HDA/USB/lwIP/AHCI workers, harden ATA probing/reset/removal around actual hardware deadlines, absent-channel detection, diagnostics and explicit worker lifetime, redo ACPI S5 shutdown around GAS/MMIO and HW-reduced firmware, scan SSDTs for _S5 and deal with Intel SMI sleep trapping, make serial and SMP timeouts use real monotonic deadlines, add thread names and fix terminal thread teardown, scheduler and APC prepare/commit races, make advisory file locks queryable and preserve split ranges and add mutable file append state, add shared-memory pipes with kernel-assisted wait/wake, introduce capability-scoped input and display managers, split surface map rights into read/write, add explicit unmap and replace present with commit/generation/damage tracking while keeping physical presentation under the display manager, decouple native exception classes from Win32 exception numbers and translate them in kernel32, add opaque process startup data, bump the resource protocol to v3 with namespace directories, symlinks and enumeration and service control to v2 with generic READY handle exports, add the new POSIX errno/status surface and rebuild fds around posixsrv-owned shared open descriptions, descriptor-local flags, exact inheritance snapshots, dup/fcntl/record locks and shared-ring pipes, add waitpid, POSIX credentials/groups/sessions/passwd/group lookups and move sockets onto stable open descriptions, port the shells and apps to the new console/input services and surface commit API, teach init to load services.ini and start/supervise RSSRV, DWM and generic services under restricted capabilities while publishing their endpoints through RSSRV, split RSSRV into namespace, volume, display, session, input, console and resource components and make /SystemRoot a real symlink to the independently published system volume, shift the syscall table again, expand lock/resource/surface/POSIX/service/thread smoke coverage, make docs scream ASK QUESTIONS and DISCUSS at LLMs, replace MIT No Attribution with WTFPL+.
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2026-09-16 10:33:20 +02:00 |
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maksw
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3dacbd32c8
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how do i always forget about the readme
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2026-08-20 22:28:04 +02:00 |
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maksw
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4add6789ba
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add a realtime scheduler class and priority-inheritance mutexes with timeouts and abandonment, add an HDA audio driver and a SYS_AUDIO_* syscall family, flesh out kernel32 with Win32 threads, events, mutexes, critical sections, and condition variables, add SYS_RESUME_THREAD for suspended thread creation, add KeInitializeMemoryTypes to reprogram MTRRs and install a canonical PAT for WB/WC/UC control, rework the display pipeline with a pitched present path and console output flush, bring back disk.vhd with mtools since vvfat fucking sucks, harden AHCI with serialized cache flush, USB mass storage with SCSI sense-data decoding, and xHCI with cleaner DMA teardown, fix the last stray for(;;) in HalStopProcessor to while(true), pile on smoke tests for audio, win32 sync primitives, and thread suspend, implement AHCI timeout, kill readahead since it was desperetaly trying to murder me, fix doom sound x2.
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2026-08-11 18:38:36 +02:00 |
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maksw
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8b254f84f4
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replace the VHD/diskpart disk image pipeline with a directory-based vvfat root, we'll see when it breaks, fix /O2, add an all_tests, generalize the fat32 driver into a fat 16+32 driver, change policy on volume drivers, collapse KCPU's fields into a single atomic KE_CPU_STATE state machine, move scheduler ticking to per-CPU LAPIC timers, gate verbose SMP topology logging behind selftest diagnostics and add SMP pool-checkpoint validation around AP admission, add checked intrusive list helpers behind a new KE_DEBUG_LIST_CHECKS flag, add ObInitializeObjectHeader/ObTryReferenceObject, add waitable display clock objects and a SYS_OPEN_DISPLAY_CLOCK syscall for vsync-style waits, refactor kernel input into a per-queue KE_INPUT_CONTEXT with its own key/mouse ring buffers and DPC-driven key repeat, add KeInputQueuePeekEvent/ReadEvent/WaitKey and a SYS_QUERY_GLOBAL_INPUT_STATE syscall, split the kernel pool allocator out of mm_virt, new video files!
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2026-07-12 00:10:21 +02:00 |
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maksw
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08329516ba
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remove stale code from posix_path, redo readme
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2026-06-30 21:50:26 +02:00 |
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maksw
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2c4a68a75f
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add page cache with read-ahead and dirty writeback, file-backed and anonymous mmap with CoW, VAD-based virtual memory replacing the old user region model, PFN database with eviction and reclaim, file identity for cross-open section sharing, FAT32 path cache and per-file cluster chain cache, serial.sys for COM1 keyboard input, xHCI MSI with INTx and polled fallback, PciEnableMsiAuto, waitable input queue, KeWaitForAnyEvent, per-process thread info syscall, expanded kernel stats (PFN/PTE/VAD/file-cache/disk), pool allocation tags, async I/O user buffer locking, file flush on close, add docs.md.
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2026-06-20 13:17:39 +02:00 |
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maksw
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61ec2442eb
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revise the readme
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2026-06-15 11:23:17 +02:00 |
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maksw
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325149006c
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completely redesign how user mode memory is allocated, fix a few smp and scheduler bugs, terminating a process now terminates the process, telemetry, optimize text editor, new font, new color scheme
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2026-06-09 18:02:28 +02:00 |
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maksw
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27b31f62b6
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usb hubs, hotplug support, unplug support, saving log files to disk, smt
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2026-06-09 09:14:24 +02:00 |
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maksw
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b838f8d83d
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move keyboard and mouse out of HAL into a standalone ps2.sys driver, implement usb stack with xhci controller discovery, hid keyboard/mouse, and bulk-only mass storage, add pci msi support with capability chain walking and software irq vector allocation (slots 16-23), rewrite user virtual memory as a USER_VA_REGION descriptor arena with per-process ownership tracking and guard page support, replacing the old bump allocator and top-down image region, add MmCreateUserRegion/MmDestroyAllUserRegions so process teardown reclaims all user va in one pass, allocate a pool-backed shadow framebuffer in hal_screen to fix cursor tearing and scroll corruption, reserve ap trampoline page below 1mb in uefi bootloader before boot services exit, rewrite memset/memcpy/memmove/memcmp with __stosq/__movsq intrinsics, promote driver flag literals to macros and add multi-tu STANDALONE_DRIVERS table to build.c, split rtl8139/rtl816x into header+source, rename KbReadScancode to KbReadKey, improve page fault output with MmDebugDescribeAddress and user region dump, fix %p to %016llX throughout.
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2026-06-02 00:01:20 +02:00 |
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maksw
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08b223ec06
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more faq
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2026-05-30 12:32:05 +02:00 |
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maksw
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bfe2b55142
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parallel compile, SMP, swapgs, cleanup, remove useless Reserved fields
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2026-05-30 11:18:46 +02:00 |
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maksw
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6bff37746d
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major restructuring, prepare for smp
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2026-05-28 18:53:37 +02:00 |
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maksw
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03bf767ac2
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add missing fault handlers instead of throwing everything into the GP bin, add more ways to crash in native shell
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2026-05-26 14:46:52 +02:00 |
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maksw
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e1248f4afe
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refactor syscall ABI and FAT32 driver to use request structs and string views natively, enforce handle access rights on object lookup, add scheduler statistics tracking, fix KiSchedule to prevent 50% idle throttling on CPU-bound threads, better document x64 initial user stack alignment, fix process teardown to properly signal exit events and manage thread counts, optimize doom file I/O with a custom handle struct to internally track position and size, add SubsystemData to TEB for generic thread-local state, apply PAGE_NX to non-executable PE sections in the loader, update native apps, tests, and shells to match new APIs, update kernel32 directory retrieval.
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2026-05-26 14:46:49 +02:00 |
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maksw
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923e8792b4
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fully GDPR-compliant
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2026-05-22 19:28:20 +02:00 |
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maksw
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df13b8056c
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add lwIP TCP/IP stack as a runtime driver, native socket syscalls, SysGetMemoryStatus replacing CatchAllDebugBucket, fix timeGetTime to return milliseconds, fix SysSleep to interpret argument as milliseconds, SysGetTick now returns microseconds, harden all syscalls against bad user pointers with CopyFromUser/CopyToUser/MmProbeUser throughout, add networking test apps, port-forward 8080 in runa.bat, split LWIP_DRIVER_CFLAGS, add settings.ini to deploy, remove ethernet.c stub
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2026-05-22 18:54:53 +02:00 |
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maksw
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18b4dd0f61
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readme enhancement
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2026-05-22 09:08:05 +02:00 |
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maksw
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bf34d63ea3
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i counted
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2026-05-19 22:05:50 +02:00 |
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maksw
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09c1420a32
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add support for more than one volume
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2026-05-19 21:52:07 +02:00 |
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maksw
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529f816166
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implement proper IRQL, DPCs, kernel and user APCs, alertable waits, async file I/O with cancellation, trap frames, selftests, a real driver/device model, native async FAT32, VFAT dotfile fixes, syscall ABI cleanup, async_apc and async_cancel tests, POSIX multi-volume paths, and pimp the readme.
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2026-05-19 20:56:15 +02:00 |
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maksw
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f5fd7bdd75
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doom is now using the native api, add a PEB + TEB to replace the dummy and the awkward argument passing to processes, all allocations are zeroed because i had enough, small readme changes and dedication.
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2026-05-18 21:30:07 +02:00 |
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maksw
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def649b995
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memory savings
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2026-05-14 14:57:00 +02:00 |
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maksw
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ddb074f0e0
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rewrite init to restart failed processes, add file renaming, directory creation, directory renaming, directory removal, add process killing, unify shells, readme changes.
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2026-05-13 10:41:48 +02:00 |
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maksw
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f80e66ecde
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build.bat can create the image if missing, split the shell into native, posix and win32, clean up the build by moving executables into directories, the bootloader is no longer responsible to resolve drivers, fix ResolvePath, every process gets a copy of a module (dll), the child always inherits the cwd, fix function exports in posix, add unlink and exit to posix, add path translator to win32, first bugcheck.
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2026-05-13 09:24:16 +02:00 |
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maksw
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0c7f461c6d
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add doom, disable warnings as errors, massive speedups in the fat32 driver, HAL_KEYBOARD Poll now returns the key and added IsKeyDown used by GetAsyncKeyState, slight upgrade in hal_main drain and pray, more accurate QueryTicks and by that GetTickCount, add GetTickCount64, boot.ini now dictates what executable should init launch, not the kernel, LaunchUserProcess in kmain.c now takes an argument, rearrange syscall numbers, add SysKbIsKeyDown syscall, use include windows.h over manual definitions, add fictional win32 api ClearConsoleScreenBuffer and real FlushConsoleInputBuffer and a clear command to the shell, print exit codes as signed int, StretchDIBits now can stretch, runa.bat now gives 256 MB.
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2026-05-11 10:10:21 +02:00 |
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maksw
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cdf7ed4cea
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a few new syscalls, init process
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2026-05-10 22:02:36 +02:00 |
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maksw
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320a24e1a5
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fix writing by using a virtual image instead of a physical thumbdrive, better document the hack in KeIrqDispatch
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2026-05-05 19:33:04 +02:00 |
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maksw
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68b3fdbc63
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oh right i forgot, document CWD in readme
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2026-05-05 15:46:17 +02:00 |
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maksw
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b5c831f593
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duct taped posix.dll (just like microsoft), new cursor, more info in the fault handlers, processes now have a parse-it-yourself cmdline, add SYS_WAIT_THREAD and SYS_GET_PROCESS_PID, writing still doesn't work
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2026-05-05 15:24:58 +02:00 |
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maksw
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8c7564d5e1
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add /IGNORE:4216 to HAL link step, add writing and directory listing to the FAT32 driver, add the concept of current working directory to the VFS, add writing to the VFS, more operations in the shell, rename KeCurrentThread to KeGetCurrentThread and add KeGetCurrentProcess, add STATUS_NO_MORE_FILES, change KeFault* to KePanic, add syscalls for writing to files, add a proper syscall to writing to the console, move Screen.Clear to after memory status debug print, add ObjectTypeDir to OBJECT_TYPE, extend kernel32 by file operations and upgrade user32 (and add gdi32) to match windows a bit more closely, change CreateProcessA to accept the first argument as NULL.
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2026-05-04 16:27:49 +02:00 |
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maksw
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a5f0acfac8
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add mouse and cursor
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2026-05-04 09:17:00 +02:00 |
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maksw
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cbb9ff469c
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add NTLITE_DRIVE and NTLITE_NTPATH so i can work on my pc and my laptop, fix dynamic driver loading
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2026-05-04 08:38:08 +02:00 |
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maksw
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4b57738fe3
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add KePanic instead of splattering _disable __halt everywhere, implement a DMA + interrupts path to the IDE driver, move the dynamic arrays from kmain.c to ke_utils.h, remove weird unicode chars
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2026-05-03 22:45:31 +02:00 |
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maksw
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83d48e09bb
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remove weird double spaces, remove /EXPORT from build.bat in favor of __declspec(dllexport)
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2026-05-03 19:54:51 +02:00 |
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maksw
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9fa2a7e0db
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colonel.exe 🤑, refactor all include directives, AHCI is now interrupt driven, upgrades to IDE, implemented I/O Request Packets, fix numerous keyboard issues, change all for (;;) and while (1) to while (true), DbgPrint guarded by spinlock, fix KeSignalEvent, major KernelMain refactor, added SystemInitThread because of new blocking I/O, replace memcpy manouvers with strncpy and strncat, add: run for ide, runa for ahci, rund for debug and ide, runad for debug and ahci.
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2026-05-03 19:35:48 +02:00 |
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maksw
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7f4052f41c
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fix the return value of LdrLoadImage, make use of __declspec(dllexport), speed up blitting, add dummy TEB, redesign the syscall interface, fix stack alignent so movaps doesn't crash, implement a shitload of win32, implement a simple shell, add bink as video.exe 😎, minor kmain.c cleanup, HAL now supports power-off events, implemented \b in hal_screen.c, fix many deadlocks, add wait for exit event for processes, completely new error codes, small readme changes.
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2026-05-03 13:43:29 +02:00 |
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maksw
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c13dd99150
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KernelMain reports more details about memory usage, LdrResolveImports catches kernel32, user32, ole32 and winmm and redirects them to win32.
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2026-05-02 15:25:39 +02:00 |
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