[coyotos-dev] Status and roadmap

[Jonathan S. Shapiro]

On Fri, 2007-01-19 at 14:28 +0000, Sam Mason wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 04:57:41AM -0500, Jonathan S. Shapiro wrote:
> > The kernel specification has been public for quite some time, and the
> > implementation is already underway.
> 
> The work is showing, section 3.3.2 (or was it 3.3.3) only documented
> what happened when the Activated field was in one state---I see this has
> been filled out to both now.

Yes. I also have pending edits on other chapters that will hopefully go
in today.

> One thing that worries me now is where the kernel gets the memory to
> "synthesize a message to be delivered" when the userland scheduler is
> activated.  In fact where does this memory come from in the general
> case?

No memory is required. The message payload is constant, and the received
message is going into receiver registers.

The case analysis on all variants of run-in and run-out is one of the
pending edits. This should help. I'll send out a note when those are in.
Suggest you look then.
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