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.
09:27
The MIPS Creator CI40 board is looking pretty cool, hopefully by the time I get it I will have an actual booting kernel that runs somewhat. I hope so. There have been many refactors as I slowly inch forward. However even after these refactors the code looks much much nicer.
20:04
Ok, so I am going to go for a number of set bits hash table for the image maps.
20:11
Actually no that cannot work because I have no idea which bits are going to be set for an instruction.
20:35
Ok so the instruction information manifests should be completely decoded now
for the most part. I just have to continue on with the decoding of operations
before I can process them. Then once they are decoded I have to setup a basic
assembler with ProgramEditor and then fix POIT again so it compiles and
potentially runs.
21:01
POIT is deprecated though, but I could at least use it as a reference for a
bit. I believe after this new ProgramEditor bit I am rather done with some
refactors and can continue code generation and such. I hope so, so I can
hopefully get a native kernel running by the end of the month.
23:45
Ok so instructions are guessed now, what I need to do tomorrow is to setup the
field information in ProgramInstruction so it can be properly handled and
the actual instruction fields can be used.