ChangeLog-0.1.0

HAL

• Added HalpGetIsaInterruptVector, HalpTranslatePciAddress,
• Improved PCI support (Hartmut Birr)

Kernel

• Implemented NtProtectVirtualMemory; msvcrt apps now work (David Welch)
• Memory management improvements,
• Fixes for SMP in the memory manager,
• Enable/Disable the irq in KeConnectInterrupt/KeDisconnectInterrupt,
• Enabled caching of directories and fat segments,
• Write back dirty pages from cache manager at shutdown (Hartmut Birr)
• File locking (Gunnar André Dalsnes)
• Registry hive locking, packing value names,
• Deferred hive synchronization (Eric Kohl)
• Profiler (Casper S. Hornstrup)

Subsystems

• Win32k: Rewrote gdi (Engxxx) objects,
• Made GDI object locking exclusive,
• Added functions for locking multiple objects,
• Color translation now works properly,
• Implemented several DC functions (Eugene Ingerman)
• Win32k: Initial scrollbar code (Jason Filby)
• CSRSS: Implemented ReadConsoleOutputA() and WriteConsoleInputA() (Marty Dill)
• System: USetup - Installation utility (Eric Kohl)
• System: First draft of a ScmNamedPipeListenerThread implementation (Robert Dickenson)
• NTVDM: Updates to the VDM support (Robert Dickenson)
• Winlogon: Retrieve startup shell from registry (Ge van Geldorp)

Libraries

• MSVCRT: Added binary and unicode file IO support to msvcrt (Robert Dickenson)
• Advapi32: Progress with opening and closing handles to SCM (Robert Dickenson)
• Kernel32: Improved file attribute and file time handling (Ge van Geldorp)
• Kernel32: Added support for lauching VDM on dos image load (Robert Dickenson)
• Kernel32: Implemented GetThreadPriotityBoost() and SetThreadPriorityBoost() (Eric Kohl)

FreeLoader

• EXT2/EXT3 file system support,
• Performance enhancements,
• VESA text modes supported now,
• Offscreen buffering to remove flicker (Brian Palmer)

Drivers

• VFatFS: performance enhancements,
• Handle FAT32 partitions larger than 4GB,
• Fixed handling of large FAT32 partitions (Hartmut Birr)
• ATAPI: multiple sector read/write, 32 Bit IO,
• Support for shared interrupts,
• Support for Promise ultra100tx2 controller (Hartmut Birr)
• ATAPI: Added write cache flushing (Eric Kohl)
• Storage Stack: Added write cache flushing (Eric Kohl)
• ScsiPort: Build the hardware device map for each SCSI port (Eric Kohl)
• Fs_Rec: Added UDF filesystem recognizer (Eric Kohl)

Apps

• Added new Service Control utitlity (Robert Dickenson)