Instead of memcpy'ing the entire screen every time we press enter at the
bottom, use the VGA start address register to make a "view" onto the
underlying memory that moves downward as we scroll.
Eventually we run out of memory and have to reset to the start of the
buffer. That's when we memcpy everything. It would be cool if there was
some way to get the hardware to act like a ring buffer with automatic
wrapping here but I don't know how to do that.
We now make three VirtualConsoles at boot: tty0, tty1, and tty2.
We launch an instance of /bin/sh in each one.
You switch between them with Alt+1/2/3
How very very cool :^)
Add a separate lock to protect the VFS. I think this might be a good idea.
I'm not sure it's a good approach though. I'll fiddle with it as I go along.
It's really fun to figure out all these things on my own.
- More work on funneling console output through Console.
- init() now breaks off into a separate task ASAP.
- ..this leaves the "colonel" task as a simple hlt idle loop.
- Mask all IRQs on startup (except IRQ2 for slave passthru)
- Fix underallocation bug in Task::allocateRegion().
- Remember how many times each Task has been scheduled.
The panel and scheduling banner are disabled until I get things
working nicely in the (brave) new Console world.
