Commit Graph

7 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Jonas 'Sortie' Termansen 98a87fa1e5 Rename Sortix kernel directory to kernel. 2014-03-01 14:37:39 +01:00
Jonas 'Sortie' Termansen b88853de81 Remove obsolete PLATFORM_X86 and PLATFORM_X64 macros. 2013-12-17 14:30:37 +01:00
Jonas 'Sortie' Termansen 90036ca6a8 Update copyright headers of old files to the current format. 2013-12-17 14:30:23 +01:00
Jonas 'Sortie' Termansen 3b0f165c4f Fixed bad declaration of MapPAT in x86-family/memorymanagement.h. 2012-07-30 18:56:02 +02:00
Jonas 'Sortie' Termansen 22990b77b8 Refactored the internal kernel memory management API.
It is now permission-oriented, not just user/kernel oriented.

Added <sys/mman.h> with nice PROT_{READ,WRITE,EXEC,FORK} constants.
2012-07-06 17:18:07 +02:00
Jonas 'Sortie' Termansen 2046482e77 Added support for MSRs, PAT and MTRRs.
This provides control over the caching of memory, which makes write-combined
IO possible. Graphics drivers can use this to transfer data at a much higher
rate to the video memory.

The implementation is a bit hacky but it'll do for now. It provides enough
support for the experimental VBE driver to work on the real computers I
tested it on, even if the BIOS uses screwed up default MTRRs.

The virtual memory layer now automatically uses the PAT feature if available
but in a backwards compatible manner and otherwise just tries to approximate
PAT features if they are asked for.
2012-07-01 00:55:36 +02:00
Jonas 'Sortie' Termansen 66192d1e86 Rewrote memory management again and added support for x64 and forking. 2011-10-10 01:02:57 +02:00