Diary.txt

11 December, 2015		ExDOS32 is mostly inactive and I start designing a new 64-bit version, with experience from ExDOS32.
13 December, 2015		Bootloader and base kernel
16 December, 2015		Long mode working
17 December, 2015		Interrupts working -- taking a break because exams
1 January, 2016			Basic ACPI table functions
6 January, 2016			SMP working, up to 16 CPUs boot fine
7 January, 2016			I/O APIC working, interprocessor IRQs working
9 January, 2016			Barebones PS/2 keyboard driver
12 January, 2016		Physical memory manager, manages up to 16 GB of physical RAM, SSE memcpy
13 January, 2016		Virtual memory manager, manages up to 16 GB of virtual memory
15 January, 2016		PCI scanner
17 January, 2016		Driver interface in userspace
18 January, 2016		ATA read/write driver (buggy, hangs sometimes in Virtualbox)
20 January, 2016		VESA 2.0 framebuffer driver
24 January, 2016		Graphics library for 32-bit and 24-bit VESA modes, with SSE double buffering
25 January, 2016		AVX acceleration for memcpy and graphics, performance improvement in Bochs
28 January, 2016		ACPI shutdown and reset
30 January, 2016		File I/O abstraction layer, read-only ExDFS filesystem driver
1 February, 2016		BMP file parser, PS/2 mouse driver
4 February, 2016		Barebones windowing system
7 February, 2016		Site is released, window system demo is available for download
9 February, 2016		Rewrote windowing system, major performance improvements
11 February, 2016		Windowing system bugfixes
13 February, 2016		Broken MTRR implementation
17 February, 2016		Alpha blending improvements
18 February, 2016		Major bugfix and performance improvement in mouse driver
20 February, 2016		Performance improvements in ATA driver
21 February, 2016		Added 16-bit VESA support to the display library (very slow, only used as a fallback)
22 February, 2016		Stub ACPI AML interpreter
23 February, 2016		MTRR implementation, write-combining for framebuffer
24 February, 2016		PCI Express memory-mapped scanner
26 February, 2016		Fixed a bug in ATA driver, now doesn't hang on VirtualBox
3 March, 2016			Added legacy PIC support to be used when I/O APIC is not present
13 March, 2016			Made a boot screen
17 March, 2016			Fixed bugs in ATA driver; now runs on real SATA hardware under IDE emulation
19 March, 2016			Added support for drawing into the window canvas
1 April, 2016			16-bit framebuffer performance improvements