Ntoskrnl.exe

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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

• 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
• 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

• 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-0.0.21

• Implemented and fixed several ACL and SD functions Alexandru Matei
• Improved memory management functions David Welch
• Improved cache functions (David Welch, Hartmut Birr)
• Object manager fixes Hartmut Birr
• Some assembler optimizations for i386 Hartmut Birr
• IO improvement ([[Hartmut Birr, David Welch
• IO support for booting from a CDROM Eric Kohl

ChangeLog-0.1.0

• 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 Dalsnes)
• Registry hive locking, packing value names,
• Deferred hive synchronization (Eric Kohl)
• Profiler (Casper Hornstrup)

ChangeLog-0.1.1

• IO improvements (Eric Kohl)
• Registry: Added hive flushing, key deletion, hize syncing (Eric Kohl)
• Flushing cache at shutdown (Hartmut Birr, Eric Kohl)
• Improved HalExamineMBR() to detect disk managers (Eric Kohl)
• Initial work on I/O completion (Gunnar Dalsnes)
• Improved ioctl requests and direct access input buffers (Hartmut Birr)
• Improved NtQuerySystemInformation (Aleksey Bragin)
• Added support for the Ontrack Disk Manager (Eric Kohl)

ChangeLog-0.1.3

• 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

• 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

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

ChangeLog-0.2.0

• Implemented driver reinitialization (Eric Kohl)
• Added "addr" "x" and "tlist" commands to kdbg (Art Yerkes)
• Added the beginnings of an implementation of NtSetInformationToken (Art Yerkes)
• Implemented shared segments for images (Hartmut Birr)
• Work on the error log worker (Eric Kohl)
• IoReuseIrp, IoQueueThreadIrp, IoEnqueueIrp implementations (Gunnar Dalsnes)
• APC improvements (Gunnar Dalsnes)
• Exception handler on broken usermode stack pointer fix (Mike Nordell)

ChangeLog-0.2.1

• Print userland addresses where possible in bugchecks (Art Yerkes)
• InsertAscendingList adaption (Gunnar Dalsnes)
• KiAcquire/ReleaseSpinLock adaption (Gunnar Dalsnes)
• Added KiAcquire/ReleaseSpinLock (Gunnar Dalsnes)
• KiAcquire/ReleaseSpinLock adaption (Gunnar Dalsnes)
• Attempt to fix the display corruption problems when using bootvid.sys on certain hardware (Filip Navara)
• Do not make NtSecureConnectPort fail: for now direct the call to NtConnectPort (Emanuele Aliberti)
• NtOpenKey() should return a better status value if the desired key does not exist (Eric Kohl)
• Implementation of RtlStringFromGUID, IoOpenDeviceInterfaceRegistryKey and IoGetDeviceInterfaceAlias (Matthew Brace)
• Fixed some problems which occurs if a read only segment is changed to write and back to read only and if such a segment (or a page from such a segment) is paged out and reloaded again (Hartmut Birr)
• Check for a privat page and change only the page protection for such a page in MmAccessFaultSectionView (Hartmut Birr)
• Only lock a new page on exit from AccessFaultSectionView (Hartmut Birr)
• Fixed querying and enumerating the subkeys of HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE; this fixes bug #78 (Eric Kohl)
• Start parsing at the root object when an object path needs to be reparsed (Art Yerkes)
• Use macros for LPC message limits in current LPC implementation (Emanuele Aliberti)
• Implement RtlFindLeastSignificantBit(), RtlFindMostSignificantBit() and _itow() (Eric Kohl)
• LPC: initial work on NT/ROS compatibility (Emanuele Aliberti)
• Add byte swap functions (Eric Kohl)
• Set the previous pointer from the next block, if some blocks was merged (in add_to_free_list) (Hartmut Birr)
• Free or recycle the remaining path string after a call to ObFindObject (Hartmut Birr)
• Work on thread-awareness in gdbstub (Gé van Geldorp)
• Always lock the pages in MmProbeAndLockPages (Hartmut Birr)
• Locked the pages in MmCommitPagedPoolAddress, if it is necessary (Hartmut Birr)
• Try to avoid crashing when dumping out a corrupted stack (David Welch)