DISCLAIMER: These notes are from the defunct k8 project which precedes SquirrelJME. The notes for SquirrelJME start on 2016/02/26! The k8 project was effectively a Java SE 8 operating system and as such all of the notes are in the context of that scope. That project is no longer my goal as SquirrelJME is the spiritual successor to it.
09:41
I had this Star Trek: Voyager dream. The plot was basically, the away team with the captain beam down to surface in a wooded area and walk to a place because it has shielding. Seven of Nine picks up things there which have a material to do things to Borg drones, but they do not know it yet. They beam up to the ship and Seven of Nine does not go up with them, she instead gets beamed to an alternate reality alone into a different Voyager. This one a bit more depressing and with more alien crew members. The previous alliance attempt with the Borg failed which caused lots of damage to the ship and a loss of a portion of the crew. In the alternate Voyager the doctor was never killed at the start so the holographic doctor was never activated. Was interesting.
11:33
Going to have the configuration system have the ability to check if the actual dynamic recompiler is supported for a given CPU configuration. This way there can be multiple dynamic recompilers with varying levels of support. So for example, say there are two recompilers for PowerPC. POIT supports many configurations as a base system while another only supports for example 64-bit. On top of that I should have a support level enumeration instead of just a plain boolean value.
14:57
POIT fails to build because of a code change, however in the configuring system it tries to build POIT so far about three times. The many calls are made because since the binary is not built, it has to build it to see if it is compatible. However the multiple build attempts are a bit bad. So what I must do is have a failed build flag set in the package status so that it does not constantly try building failed packages.
15:26
I must when checking to see if something is supported is to load the helper package too for the compiler. POIT just exists in a base package with nothing at all, so checking if it supports PowerPC will fail.
21:20
I might just not have to use a forked setup for the building and instead just have it be a part of the hairball default one.
21:25
Going to need to move the dyna rec configuration instead to the machine and then just have a base for a CPU.
21:28
I wonder if the G4 actually supports little endian. There is an option in the boot loader but I would not want to risk the potential to brick my laptop by setting the flag.
21:50
Going to need a potential base config inherit handler and such for extra things which may be inherited for example.
21:53
However, it is not known whether or not an inherited set is to be removed or added. So the current replacement policy works best for this case, although it can remove previously set values.
22:08
Virtual configurations will be very useful.
22:10
I believe the base configuration is mostly complete now, just now need to go into building the actual kernel and such with it.
22:28
I am refactoring a bunch of my stuff but the stuff I am refactoring so far was added before the build system was actually really around (sort of), but now that I know what to do best I can do it. So I suppose this is another rewrite of sorts. However what I have now is very clean and I really like it compared to before. Using this new stuff will be far easier than before however and it will not be a huge mess either. The hairball refactor was long overdue though since parts of it I sort of rewrote as a tack on. The refactored code is also much much smaller too.