Working on the OS FAQ [Mega-Tokyo Wiki]

[hgb]

How I can check??, I still have no access .

[Colonel Kernel]

Quick question about the wiki -- Is the RSS feed for Recent Edits enabled? I can't seem to get it to work...

[Pype.Clicker]

http://www.osdev.org/osfaq2/index.php/WishList

a couple of new pages are under construction ... if you feel like helping/cross-checking ...

Oh, and btw, good luck to all of you having exams

[distantvoices]

Ah, exams ... *gg* That's what is approaching me in september this year.

[AR]

Can someone fix the homepage please? The "Visual C/C++" entry is broken, I presume the solution is to change the wikiword to [Visual C/C++|Visual C].

[oswizard]

The Visual C wiki needs to be fixed again... The home page is linked to [Visual C/C++] which gives two links: one to [Visual C] and one to [Visual C/C++] if you click on the C++. There are two pages.

Thanks,
Mike

[Solar]

In the thread Friendliness towards "newbies", user smiddy pointed out that the sticky threads on this board are not as organized as they could be.

I'm willing to agree.

I think that the "How to ask Questions (new and improved)" thread shows a good solution: Having a sticky thread pointing into the Wiki, and doing the information summary there (as the stickies are about summarizing, not discussing).

Could we make (some of) the other stickies into similar Wiki pages? The book recommendations and the Quick Links are prime candidates for this.

What do you think? Would that help newcomers, having a single "README FIRST" thread that points to a Wiki intro page?

[bubach]

I think that's a good idea. Threads like "book recommendations" and "QuickLinks" are more wiki material anyway.

[Pype.Clicker]

yep, that makes sense. I suppose that members that are willing to contribute are somehow used to edit the wiki by now ...

[CloudNine]

Just saying that I've contributed some information about the UltraSPARC architecture. Is anyone interested in information about any other archs (because I can dig that up easily), or should go more into depth with just one architecture?

[Pype.Clicker]

Just saying that I've contributed some information about the UltraSPARC architecture. Is anyone interested in information about any other archs (because I can dig that up easily), or should go more into depth with just one architecture?

thanks, i'll be pushing that on the homepage as soon as i get back to a PC that has authentification code for wiki administration.

probably you could get a look at "PowerPC" page and see if you can provide interresting information. The kind of information i suppose people could be looking for would be
- how does the system boot, is there a bootloader for study somewhere ?
- how does the system differs from a PC ? is there a good repository of system documentation (like IntelManuals ...)
- is there any hardware from the PC world that i might encounter there (PCI cards, etc.) or is there some well-known hardware i could rely on ? (e.g. iMacs have USB mouse, do we have info about the USB controller involved on iMacs ?)

[Brendan]

Hi,

I'd appreciate a list of non-80x86 architectures with very brief details of each. The intent would be to provide a very quick summary of the alternatives, so that an OS developer looking to port an OS to (or develop an OS for) non-80x86 computers could make an fast initial assessment before doing further research.

For example, one line for each architecture containing the following:

• the name of it and a link to a wiki page dedicated to that architecture (if any)
  a score out of 10 for market share/popularity
  a score out of 10 for available documentation
  some checkboxes or something (32 bit/64 bit, MMU/no MMU, open architecture, etc)
  a classification - workstation/desktop, server, embedded, etc.
  a short note (10 words describing where it's mostly used)

Cheers,

Brendan

[df]

someone needs to fix the tables I added to the 64bit cpu stuff... I wanted to break the lp64/ilp64 into its own page so it can be expanded but couldnt figure out how to add it to the front page.....

[Solar]

Front page is locked, i.e. requires admin login to edit.

Will look into it this afternoon.

[bluecode]

hi,

I've got some suggestions concerning the os-faq:
* adding a section "pure virtual functions" to the howto-enable list in "Doing a kernel in C++" (for gcc and for Visual C)
* moving the last paragraph from "Visual C" to "Doing a kernel in C++"
I also write an explanation on howto enable global/static objects in C++, because in my optinion the information in "Doing a kernel in C++" is outdated in some parts.
Your opinion is welcome!

cu bluecode