Here's a status report on Movitz:
* First of all, activity has picked up a bit the last month or so. So
this is a great time to jump on the bandwagon :-)
* The Wiki is open for business:
http://trac.common-lisp.net/movitz/wiki
* The IRC channel is #movitz on irc.freenode.net.
* I have more or less migrated my primary development environment to
SBCL and SLIME, and so I made the effort to polish the Movitz tools
for this setup. See
http://trac.common-lisp.net/movitz/wiki/MovitzAndSlime
* Some recent developments are: Much better &key argument parsing in
(compiled) functions, improved floppy bootloader, VGA graphics
(http://ccgi.bealbywm.plus.com/blog/2007/03/07/vga-in-movitz/) and
improved keyboard driver by Shawn Betts. Reportedly, Mr. Betts has
also successfully implemented preemptive thread switching.
* My own development focus currently is to invent a reasonable
mechanism for waiting/blocking. The current busy-looping nature of
movitz kernels is clearly the biggest wart on the system.
* While I have nothing concrete to show for it, I have been thinking
that adding/porting Movitz to 64-bit x86 would be very
interesting. (Not to mention there is a window of opportunity now
while our main competitor Microsoft is struggling to port their
legacy systems.)
That's it for now, happy hacking to all,
--
Frode Vatvedt Fjeld
