Releases: includeos/IncludeOS
Releases · includeos/IncludeOS
Standalone IP stack, Ping etc.
Since alpha
usually means a release, and we haven't released anything yet, we'll call all versions up to the first actual release vMajor.Minor.Patch-proto
. We decided earlier that semantic versioning is nice, even before we release anything, so expect a lot of major versions, since we're going to redo the API all the time.
New in this version:
- Standalone IP stack (so you can't get an IP stack instance via the interface anymore, which is an API change, and consequently this is a new Major release)
- IncludeOS now answers to ping
- There is a dedicated
test
folder which will build images named after the latest commit, orDIRTY
- The IP stack is called
Inet
, and everything network related is in the namespacenet
- The UDP-service in
./examples/basic_udp
will assign itself an IP based on the mac-address assigned to it from Qemu. Later this conversion will also be used reversly, in Arp. - We have a module system under way, and SQLite is the first module (it doesn't work yet)
Unstable UDP, Memory management, partial STL
Dangers:
- Network buffers are not robust - if you spam the service with lots of UDP packets with no delay, it will break.
- The whole service loads into the first MB of memory, and expands from there, ignoring things like video memory
New structure and build system
- The OS now builds into a static library,
os.a
, which gets installed for re-use. This also has the effect of allowing the linker to only extract the OS-objects required by the service. - A new service can be created by copying the
./seed
, which contains everything necessary to start developing. - The "public" ABI is separated from the OS-specific headers.
Standard C library Included (sort of)
- The bootloader now loads the image in 32-bit code using LBA-mode (no bios-calls, no CHS)
- newlib is ported and works nicely so far (printf, malloc etc.) - but syscalls are only stubs.
Still a lot of issues, but at least now we can print hexadecimal values:-)