Is it me, or has it been a while?

It's not you. It indeed has been a while and it is all due to the fact that this week is exam week at school. Those things require my attention a little more than the kernel.

So you've done nothing to the kernel since last update?

Well, that's not entirely true. I've been reading the Elf32 specifications and have managed to pull some more info from the Elf headers. Among which is a segment with a type number that doesn't appear to make sense according to the specifications.

However, after doing some googling I found out that Linux uses its own types. One of those is a stack segment, in which the kernel is specified to reserve room for the stack. In normal circumstances that's nice, but since my kernel sets up its own stack I'm just going to ignore this segment.

As for the rest?

Well I've been redoing my printhex function so that it now prints numbers in every base in the range from 2 to 36. All printf has to do now is call this printnum function with the number (named index), base, a boolean called signed and a boolean for capital characters.

So I guess that's all.

Well, not entirely. I have also changed the layout of the Orion project itself. Andromeda now no longer is merged into the Orion source tree. It rather is imported as sub-module. This means that when you import the Orion source tree, all you get is a .gitmodules file and a bunch of empty directories.

You then have to do git submodule init; git submodule update; to get the sources from the sub-projects.

Now that's all.

And what can we expect for the future?

Well, school is about to break up for the summer, which renders me a lot of spare time. I'll be spending some of that spare time in the woods with my dog, and some of that time in France. I will also be spending some of that time on the project, so don't worry about that.

I think the summer break up will give me more time to do work on the project so you might see the impact graphs show a lot more impact.