Ntoskrnl.exe

See Also

Techwiki:Ntoskrnl

http://svn.reactos.org/svn/reactos/trunk/reactos/ntoskrnl/?view=log

ChangeLog-0.0.17

• Added multiboot support to ntoskrnl
• Kernel can bow be booted with GRUB

ChangeLog-0.0.18

Kernel (Is this the right one?)

• Section and general memory manager enhancements
• Changed irq handler from C to assembler
• Established forwarded exports
• Implemented profiling
• Initial work on exception handling
• DMA support
• Kernel debugger
• Trace facility
• Added Intel MultiProcessor Specification support
• Began building PnP manager device tree
• Registry improvements
• Work on the filesystem cache
• Named pipe improvements
• Implemented atoms in ntoskrnl
• Enabled FASTCALL calling convention
• Rewrote stack allocation

ChangeLog-0.0.19

• Seperated the HALs from ntoskrnl.exe Casper Hornstroup

KERNEL

• IO Subsystem work Eric Kohl
• Initial OS level SEH support Casper Hornstroup
• Cache work Hartmut Birr
• Implemented basic ANSI/OEM <--> Unicode translation tables in the kernel Eric Kohl
• Implemented mutant object Eric Kohl
• Added system hive support and started hardware detection Eric Kohl
• Implemented LPC sections David Welch
• Implemented file system change notification Eric Kohl
• Work on caching, mutexes and paged pool memory David Welch
• Memory balancer David Welch
• Virtual memory support David Welch
• Swapping to disk David Welch
• Implemented PsLookupXxx() functions Eric Kohl
• Implemented process and thread notification routines Eric Kohl
• Started kernel queue implementation and added win32k support functions Eric Kohl
• Fixed a memory bug that often crashed the kernel on boot (dubbed the Frequent Crasher Bug or FCB) Hartmut Birr
• Fixed up object creation Eric Kohl

ChangeLog-0.0.20

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

ChangeLog-0.1.3

Ntoskrnl.exe

• Bootscreen (programming: Casper Hornstrup, graphics: Steve Cockeram)
• Crash dumps to disk (David Welch)
• Addition of CacheAligned to PagedPool (Royce Mitchell)
• Redzone violation detection (Royce Mitchell)

ChangeLog-0.1.4

Ntoskrnl.exe

• Implementation of Ke(Save/Restore)FloatingPointState (Gé van Geldorp)
• Made existing eventpair code more efficient and added support for associating eventpairs with * threads and signaling them that way (Skywing)
• RtlRaiseException user mode implementation (Vizzini)
• KiRaiseUserExceptionDispatcher/KeRaiseUserException to raise user exceptions from kernel mode (Vizzini)
• Implemented the allocation type NonPagedPoolCacheAligned/NonPagedPoolCacheAlignedMustS (Hartmut Birr)
• Process fixes (Hartmut Birr)
• Plug and Play manager improvements (Filip Navara)
• Implemented NtUnloadDriver(), partial IoGetDeviceProperty(), IoGetDmaAdapter(), IoIsWdmVersionAvailable(), ExFreePoolWithTag (Filip Navara)
• Check for presence of \reactos\ntoskrnl.exe instead of REACTOS disk label to identify the boot cdrom device (Eric Kohl)

ChangeLog-0.1.5

Ntoskrnl.exe

• Improved implementation of IoMapTransfer, Implemented KeRemoveDeviceEntryQueue (Gunnar Dalsnes)