Broken Record
The subject line of this news entry, Broken Record, is meant to serve as a double entendre of sorts. First, it has been quite some time since a news entry has been posted, in which puts me at risk of sounding like a "broken record" with regard to my last entry. Second, it currently represents the longest time between posting news entries, thus breaking that record.
To follow up on the last news entry, I achieved basic Multiprocessor support in August of 2009. Shortly after that, I started another semester of College. Since then I've put in two semesters in total, among other life events and responsibilities, and thus, as you can imagine, work on DynatOS has again been at a crawl.
I can say with certainty that this grudgingly slow pace of development will continue until, at least, this time next year. So, don't be too worried if you don't see another news entry until mid 2011... I have not retired this project to the vaporware/abandonware department quite yet ;)
May 16th, 2010
Multiprocessor Support
It's been awhile since my last news entry. Work on DynatOS has been slow over the last 7 months, with most of the focus on analysis of the current design rather than actual coding.
With that being said, I am moving forward with implementing support for multiple processors/cores. This also involves a revamp of the process scheduler to account for, and utilize, multilple processors.
April 30th, 2009
Modular Design
Up until this point, most of DynatOS has been developed in a true monolithic fashion, that being a solid kernel binary with all drivers and programs necessary.
Lately I've been dedicating my work on DynatOS to making portions of the loading process more modular. There is still much to do in this area in regards to the structures, loaders and tools involved to make this concept complete.
August 31st, 2008