Documentation

Documentation

[Jody]

I feel that with the recent activity concerning ELKS, I should extend my
offer to make up any kind of documentation that I can for the project,
since this is the weakest link in most projects.  I am NOT a programmer,
and I am not an expert at compiling and porting.  I can document anything
that anyone can help me reproduce at my house that needs to have
documentation for the ELKS project to see more activity.  If anyone has any
ideas what I can go about documenting, please email me back or look for
"nsx" in the #elks IRC channel.

Jody

Re: Documentation

[Andrey Romanenko]

Hi everybody,

Jody wrote:

>If anyone has any
>ideas what I can go about documenting, please email me back or look for
>"nsx" in the #elks IRC channel.
>  
>
I think there is NO decent documentation about elks kernel. What I would 
like to see is:
1. Kernel architecture: (supported CPU modes; memory modes for 8086 and 
286 for kernel and for processes; processes scheduling and interrupt 
handling; memory managment and swap support; system invocation 
mechanism; processes synchronization mechanisms; other kernel issues);
2. Available and expected to be done API and libraries;
3. Porting issues (tools,guides,how-tos);

this documents will help us to involve more peoples to project, cause 
many guys even won't bother to spend couple weeks exploring source code 
to find out all those mentioned issues.

thanks,

Andrey

Re: Documentation

[Miguel Bolanos]

Good Day Jody!

On Sat, 2004-05-15 at 08:28, Jody wrote:
> I feel that with the recent activity concerning ELKS, I should extend my
> offer to make up any kind of documentation that I can for the project,
> since this is the weakest link in most projects.  I am NOT a programmer,
> and I am not an expert at compiling and porting.  I can document anything
> that anyone can help me reproduce at my house that needs to have
> documentation for the ELKS project to see more activity.  If anyone has any
> ideas what I can go about documenting, please email me back or look for
> "nsx" in the #elks IRC channel.
> 

Thanks a lot for your offer.. actually as part of the new plan for
elks.. we will need to not only improve the current documentation, but
also write docs for the new kernel work plus gcc-8086 stuff.
Something that u have to be aware is that the community is not only
powered by Skilled coders, but also by people with a lot of will to help
on anything that they can as it is Doc writing.. so indeed, please
follow the work, and feel free to ask questions whether it is here or on
the list.

best wishes.

Mike

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