Changes between Version 15 and Version 16 of ReleaseNotes/0.5.0

Timestamp:

2011-02-16T22:40:14Z (13 years ago)

Author:

Jakub Jermář

Comment:

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ReleaseNotes/0.5.0

@@ -17 +17 @@
  * New boot infrastructure
    * The new boot infrastructure is more unified and offers similar boot behavior on all supported platforms.
-   * Except for HelenOS/ia32 and HelenOS/amd64, the boot image will be deflated.
+   * Except for HelenOS/ia32 and HelenOS/amd64, the boot image will be deflated to conserve space. Unfortunately, this also increases the boot time of such images because they first need to be inflated.
  * PearPC support discontinued
    * PearPC was the original PowerPC simulator used for the development of HelenOS/ppc32 port. However, since this simulator is no longer in active development and even severe flaws have not been fixed for more that 4 years (OFW memory management calls, etc.), we have decided to drop support for this simulator completely instead of adding more quirks to our bootloader and kernel code. Qemu/PPC is currently our PowerPC simulator of choice.
@@ -35 +35 @@
    * New root driver.
    * New virtual root driver and a set of sample test drivers.
-   * New DDF platform driver for each platform.
-   * New DDF driver for the Intel PCI bus controller.
-   * New DDF driver for the ns8250 serial port.
+   * New platform driver for each platform.
+   * New driver for the Intel PCI bus controller.
+   * New driver for the ns8250 serial port.
+ * Removed the old ```pci``` driver.
  * ```file_bd``` can take the block size as a parameter.
  * Minimalistic support for ATAPI CD-ROM in ```ata_bd```.
@@ -63 +64 @@
    * Added ```top``` utility which can print nearly real-time statistics for various system entities.
    * Added ```stats``` utility which prints various system statistics, such as list of tasks, threads, processors, and the information about the system load.
- * Languages
+ * Programming languages
    * Added ```sbi``` interpreter of the [wiki:Sysel] experimental programming language.
  * ```klog``` writes its output also to /log/klog.