OSDev Wiki:Wish List
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If you are new to OS development and think that this FAQ lacks information on some area, you could post your request for more info here:
Urgent
- A comprehensive guide to setting up paging, physical, and virtual memory management.
- An article on memory management. Review Solaris slab allocator, what is a buddy system, how Linux does it, overview of the NetBSD uvm, etc. -- this is partially started in Page_Frame_Allocation.
- The most important thing an OS does: load and run programs. Using PIC with ELF programs, loading and running Microsoft COFF-in-PE files (assuming they are not Win32 programs of course; link to MSDN "Inside Windows" articles on PE), link vs. load addresses, etc. Also loadable kernel modules (for monolithic kernels): how do the modules find the kernel symbols, etc.
- ELF loading, relocating and dynamic linking.
- Device driver interface, how to make/use one.
- More on hardware programming. Demo ATA disk driver, demo ATAPI CDROM driver, or commentary of these drivers in Linux or one of the BSDs (or even Minix v3 http://www.minix3.org).
Less Urgent
- harddisk tutorials and documents (PartitionTable, MBR, etc.).
- The Ranish Partitioning Primer is a good starting point IMHO.
- Query Hard Disk (for geometry and other useful bits of data).
- File systems. A look at traditional file systems on Unix systems (e.g. the v7 file system), then move on to the BSD FFS, a look at FAT12, FAT16 and FAT32, a look at modern Unix file systems like Ext2 and journaling file systems (NTFS, Ext3, ReiserFS), implementing a journaling file system.
- more info on C heavy grub booted kernels (particularly at&t syntax asm style...).
- A map of the BIOS data area (like http://www.bioscentral.com/misc/bda.htm)
- Information on the theory behind command lines and text UI's.
- Naming OSes - http://www.osdev.org/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=15250
- This has been sort of started in Beginner Mistakes. Yayyak 23:18, 26 October 2007 (CDT)
Not very urgent at all really
- Adding new object format to BFD (this is discussed in http://libosdk.berlios.de/wiki/index.php/Binutils).
- Coding a delay(ms).
- More on C++: what support is needed to fully use C++ in a standalone environment? Why? Example code?
- C library stuff: examples of crt0.o and crt1.o (or crtbegin.o, crti.o and crtn.o whatever!) and what the purpose of these files is.
- Some notes on the newer devices like HPET timers -- see this thread.
- Your request goes here