BarinkOS/features.md

# TODO list 
## Basics
<input type="checkbox" checked/> Setup Cross-Compiler \
<input type="checkbox" checked/> Multiboot to kernel \
<input type="checkbox" checked/> Printing string to the screen \
<input type="checkbox" checked/> Printing values/numbers to the screen \
<input type="checkbox" checked/> Basic Terminal \
<input type="checkbox" checked/> Extend Multiboot implementation \
<input type="checkbox" checked/> Output to serial port \
<input type="checkbox" checked/> Move to protected mode \
<input type="checkbox" checked/> Enabel CMOS clock \
<input type="checkbox" checked/> Time measurement (PIC &| PIT) \
<input type="checkbox" /> Detect CPU speed \
<input type="checkbox" checked/> Interrupt / exception system (API) \
<input type="checkbox" checked/> PCI support \
<input type="checkbox" checked/> ATA PIO Mode support \
<input type="checkbox" checked/> FAT Filesystem \
<input type="checkbox" /> Virtual filesystem \
<input type="checkbox" checked/> Keyboard support ( P/S2 Keyboard) \
<input type="checkbox" checked/> Physical memory management \
<input type="checkbox" checked/>  Paging \
<input type="checkbox" checked/> Virtual memory management \
<input type="checkbox" checked/> The heap: allocating memory at runtime (malloc and free) is almost impossible to go without. \
<input type="checkbox" /> Enable SIMD Extensions (SSE)

## Other features I am thinking of:
<input type="checkbox" checked/> PCI support \
<input type="checkbox" /> ATA PIO Mode support \
<input type="checkbox" /> USTAR Filesystem ( For its simplicity this is very likely the first filesystem the OS is going to support) \
<input type="checkbox" /> ACPI support ( Or some other basic way to support shutdown, reboot and possibly hibernation ) \
<input type="checkbox" /> ATAPI support \
<input type="checkbox" checked/> Memory Management (MMU)   
<input type="checkbox" /> Hardware Management system

<input type="checkbox" /> Preemptive multi tasking \
<input type="checkbox" /> Processes  \
<input type="checkbox" /> Threads  
<input type="checkbox" /> Scheduling (SRV2 Unix OR Priority Based Round Robin) \
<input type="checkbox" /> System V ABI compliance (partially) \
<input type="checkbox" /> POSIX compliance (partially) \
<input type="checkbox" /> RPC - for interprocess communication \
<input type="checkbox" /> Sync primitives  - Semaphores, Mutexes, spinlocks et al. \

<input type="checkbox" /> ACPI support  \
<input type="checkbox" /> ATAPI support \

## Optional 
<input type="checkbox" /> Basic Window server/client \
<input type="checkbox" /> EXT2 Filesystem 
<input type="checkbox" /> USTAR Filesystem \
<input type="checkbox" /> FAT16 Filesystem \