ChangeLog-0.0.20

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Contents 1 KERNEL 2 DRIVERS 3 LIBRARIES 4 SUBSYSTEMS 5 UTILITIES 6 FREELOADER

KERNEL

• Implemented NtCreateToken and fixed up NtQueryInformationToken() Joseph Galbraith
• Minimize access to the module object via the object manager. Eric Kohl
• Use module list for internal module management. Eric Kohl
• Protect module list with a spinlock. Eric Kohl
• Registry improvements: Eric Kohl
  • Improved registry initialization
  • Registry-based driver loading for system-start drivers and auto-start drivers
  • Implemented registry links
• PICE now loaded automatically Eric Kohl
• Improved thread support David Welch
• Fixed a long-standing hack to open symbolic link objects Eric Kohl
• Implemented the ability to create suspended threads Eric Kohl
• Implemented binary tree, splay tree and hash table routines Casper Hornstroup
• Moved the hardcoded command line string from ntoskrnl to loadros Eric Kohl
• Use NT-compatible (VPB-based) mounting mechanism Eric Kohl

DRIVERS

• Work on the floppy driver Hartmut Birr
• Improved VFAT driver including: Hartmut Birr
• Changed directory and fat access to pining-interface
• Changed calculation of available and free clusters
• Changed mount and type determining procedure
• Added FAT32 fs type
• Support for accessing the raw volume
• New storage drivers: Eric Kohl
  • Implemented ATAPI support
  • Made CDROM and TAPE devices mountable
  • Implemented command retries
  • Improved error handling
  • Enabled drive letter assignment to removable drives
  • Always update a drive's geometry data
  • Made NTFS-Partitions mountable
• Added basic ISO-9660 file system driver for CDROM support Art Yerkes
• Added media changing support Eric Kohl
• Added directory listing Eric Kohl
• Added file and directory caching Eric Kohl
• Added file system recognizing driver Eric Kohl
• Work on the NDIS driver Robert Dickenson

LIBRARIES

• Added support for piping in kernel32 Hartmut Birr
• Added zlib version 1.1.4 to the source tree KJK::Hyperion
• Added the ability to expand embedded environment variables Royce Mitchell III

SUBSYSTEMS

• Initial code for the VT-100 terminal emulator that runs in the W32 subsystem and connects to the * PSXSS.EXE (WIP) Emanuele Aliberti
• Beginning of the OS/2 subsystem Robert K
• POSIX+ can now call fork() KJK::Hyperion
• Work on windowing David Welch
• Improved messaging David Welch
• Basic region support Eugene Ingerman
• Beginning code for PSXSS server program Emanuele Aliberti
• Improvements to CSRSS Hartmut Birr
• Improvements to PSXSS KJK::Hyperion

UTILITIES

• Ability to use a .lst file for loadros.com instead of command line parameters Art Yerkes

FREELOADER

• Improved memory management Brian Palmer
• Added LBA support to FAT12/16 boot sector Brian Palmer
• Added protected mode exception handling in case FreeLoader crashes Brian Palmer
• Reworked memory manager to use all of extended memory Brian Palmer
• Reworked UI code, now supports multiple text-mode resolutions Brian Palmer
• Added separate configuration for a SETUPLDR version Brian Palmer
• Added Added ISO-9660 support for booting from CDROMs Eric Kohl
• Ability to load Linux kernels Brian Palmer

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