Ian Seyler

VirtualBox - PXE booting causes the first 10 packets to be 'lost'

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Driver issue?

Remove the CLI from the kernel

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The Command Line Interface should be removed from the kernel binary. It should be treated as an application instead of a kernel component. This could be a good opportunity to...

Memory map

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Use the PML4 to keep track of pages in use instead of a separate area of memory?

Zero-copy in the network stack

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-copy

Newlib - Clean up gettimeofday()

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Have the RTC interrupt increment a 64-bit value every second. On the first call to gettimeofday() check this value. If the value is less than 946684800 (2000/1/1 00:00:00) then we...

Higher half

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Move the kernel to the higher half of memory (0xFFFF800000000000). Required adjustment of the PML4.

Direction flag with input/output functions

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Some functions will break if the direction flag is set. Should this be left to the app programmer to verify? Or should the OS save/restore the state of the flag...

TCP/IP

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Need to implement the following - ARP - Static IP config - ICMP - UDP - TCP - DHCP Currently being worked on.

Virtio driver

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Add Virtio network support for running BareMetal in a VM. http://wiki.libvirt.org/page/Virtio PCI ID is 0x1AF4:0x1000 - http://pci-ids.ucw.cz/read/PC/1af4/1000

Intel makes a few of these now. 8259x