ableos/TODO.md

AbleOS

General

• Improve EXT2
• Remove x86 specific code and refine the boot process

Capabilities

A new process should not have any capabilities at all until it is given them or requests them and is approved.

• Filesystem cap

  • Create a new filesystem
  • Unmount/Mount a filesystem
  • read a file
  • write a file
  • delete a file

• Network cap

  • open/close socket
  • bind/unbind socket

• Manage Process cap

  • spawn Process cap
  • kill Process cap

Riscv

ARM

• Get arm-version booting on real hardware

Drivers

• Slim down driver specific program code
  • Remove entry/exit functions for drivers

Filesystem

• Create a vfs that ties into the capability system
• Remote home directory
  • local file caching
  • remote file changes
    • Update file if the remote file changes

Tooling

Repbuild

• make generation of the ext2 image possible