Kernel design
Design document
 - Interrupts and Threading
   - See Solaris implementation of Kernel threading
   - Need way to service interrupts
   - Need a scheduler
 - Virtual Memory
   -
 - Filesystem
   - File Descriptor Ops:
     - close, read, write, seek, open (fd, name, opts), truncate,
       fstat, chown (do we need a permission system?), mount, unmount,
       remount(?), dup
     - device special operations, such as eject operation for a cdrom
       - proposal: make device descriptors a directory
         - a cdrom would have a directory cdrom/ with the files eject
           and disk in it
       - or we can just limit what the users can do

VMIPS
 - We Need:
   - serial devices
   - hard disk
     - Twohey has written the back half that writes blocks to disk
       - This needs to get tied into VMIPS
       - We should see how this is done in real life
   - performance enhancements
     - GNU Lighting for writing JIT compilers
   - loading of user programs
     - a.out, ELF, COFF
       - ELF seems to be the standard we'll go with that

Books Needed
 - Generously subsidized by the CSUA
   - Solaris Internals Core Kernel Architecture, Mauro, McDougall,
     ISBN: 0130224960
   - Practical File System Design with the Be File System, Giampaolo,
     ISBN: 1558604979

Meeting was cut somewhat short in order to make a book run to see
how Solaris handles threading and interrupts.
(notes for this day, taken by dans@csua)