PearPC Client OS as primary OS in a pc

[Guru3]

which version of slackware?

[Guest]

the lastet. Slackware 10,

[nurv]

Hi there

after completed the first boot of kilt i started reading the pearpc code to understand it. If some one are aware of the existence of any type of documentation about this please tell me.

More. At this moment i could understand that gConfig struct is a grafics card struct. So i have to send the comms output to the PCI Bus 0, Device 0, Function 0. Or what the hell that can be.

Third. The debug information, that normaly prints on CMD window will desapear... Sory but theres nothing i can do about it.

The kernel will also include the Config file, meaning, change the configuration only be possible after recompiling the kernel. Boring i know must is the only way to make a smaller kernel since the other way is to install ext2fs reading file system

Respond with your questions or ideias...

Thanks

[Jackal05]

It shouldn't be that hard. Can't you just use a kernal from a linux distro that is already out there?
And then perhapes use grub for selecting which partition to boot from.
Edit: ah I see, you guys are already on it.

[patrickweber]

Well, I am not a big (outside of windows) coder.. I only know Visual Basic .. But I would be thrilled if I could be a beta tester. Or even an alpha tester or whatever comes before that! I would love to test every aspect of it. If you could keep me updated my email address is:

patrick@patrickweber.com

Thanks!

[nurv]

Answering Jackal05 and all otheres: I try using a smal linux distro run pearpc and in terms of speed was mostly like to a windows build. The problem here is that we are not trying to make a emulation, but transforming our PC into a Mac by software. If we use linux i had to lost many time understanding linux and removing the system memory management unit. The operating system part is now mostly done. The problem now is integrating both. For those who don't know how to build a OS, every C library in any OS, at start, is included in the system it self. Being pearpc a C++ program this is also true. So my problem is that right now i can't test it because i don't know how to incorporate c++ library into a kernel.

At this point what i figure it out now, witch i extracted from my notes after analising main.cc:

#include "info.h" Program name, version, etc.
#include "cpu/cpu.h" Thread starting functions
#include "debug/debugger.h" Debuging classes and functions
#include "io/io.h" I/O functions for PCI e ISA (Maybe memory?)
#include "io/graphic/gcard.h" Manager of grafics card buffer
#include "io/ide/ide.h" Disks
#include "io/ide/cd.h" CDROM's
#include "io/prom/prom.h" WTF is a prom??? ?Programable Read Only Memory
#include "io/prom/promboot.h" the same prom??
#include "io/prom/prommem.h" Memory management unit rom?
#include "tools/atom.h" I don't kown what this is
#include "tools/data.h" More of the same... Present date fetch???
#include "tools/except.h" exceptions
#include "tools/snprintf.h" Screen Print
#include "system/display.h" Display color
#include "system/mouse.h" Mice
#include "system/keyboard.h" Keyboard
#include "system/sys.h" something clipboard
#include "configparser.h" parser of the config file

#include "system/gif.h" ?Gif dealing
#include "system/ui/gui.h" ?i don't know, diaglogs maby?

#include "ppc_font.h" font bin
#include "ppc_img.h" image bin (PPC at the start window)
#include "ppc_button_changecd.h" image Bib (CDROM change)

If some one don't agree with something please tell me...

[Jackal05]

There must be some sorta kernal already there build for the purpose of others incorporating their application to.

[patrickweber]

[quote="nurv":dbd8be7c32]
Answering Jackal05 and all otheres: I try using a smal linux distro run pearpc and in terms of speed was mostly like to a windows build. The problem here is that we are not trying to make a emulation, but transforming our PC into a Mac by software. If we use linux i had to lost many time understanding linux and removing the system memory management unit. The operating system part is now mostly done. The problem now is integrating both. For those who don't know how to build a OS, every C library in any OS, at start, is included in the system it self. Being pearpc a C++ program this is also true. So my problem is that right now i can't test it because i don't know how to incorporate c++ library into a kernel.

At this point what i figure it out now, witch i extracted from my notes after analising main.cc:

#include "info.h" Program name, version, etc.
#include "cpu/cpu.h" Thread starting functions
#include "debug/debugger.h" Debuging classes and functions
#include "io/io.h" I/O functions for PCI e ISA (Maybe memory?)
#include "io/graphic/gcard.h" Manager of grafics card buffer
#include "io/ide/ide.h" Disks
#include "io/ide/cd.h" CDROM's
#include "io/prom/prom.h" WTF is a prom??? ?Programable Read Only Memory
#include "io/prom/promboot.h" the same prom??
#include "io/prom/prommem.h" Memory management unit rom?
#include "tools/atom.h" I don't kown what this is
#include "tools/data.h" More of the same... Present date fetch???
#include "tools/except.h" exceptions
#include "tools/snprintf.h" Screen Print
#include "system/display.h" Display color
#include "system/mouse.h" Mice
#include "system/keyboard.h" Keyboard
#include "system/sys.h" something clipboard
#include "configparser.h" parser of the config file

#include "system/gif.h" ?Gif dealing
#include "system/ui/gui.h" ?i don't know, diaglogs maby?

#include "ppc_font.h" font bin
#include "ppc_img.h" image bin (PPC at the start window)
#include "ppc_button_changecd.h" image Bib (CDROM change)

If some one don't agree with something please tell me...
[/quote:dbd8be7c32]Now remember that I am not a C++ programmer so I might be totally wrong. Can you have a #include to the pearpc? Like #include "ppc.h" and then call all the commands you need from it. So it is an external library but all the calls are made from inside the kernel?

[Jackal05]

PearPC was written in ASM and partiely C++.