Index: trunk/TODO =================================================================== --- trunk/TODO (revision 0) +++ trunk/TODO (revision 31) @@ -0,0 +1,48 @@ +TODO List for Chameleon Boot Loader +==================================== + +- Add a new module capable of writing proprietary Chameleon data to ioreg: + Using the DT__xxx() API, we will creat e a set of functions to write + to log info, chameleon boot info to be retrieved by helper applications... + the only public function for log info purpose of this module would be: + logMessageToIOREG(...); // var args printf style format + flushLogToIOREG(); // store a unique log info property to the ioreg + + The preferred internal behavior of the log info ioreg buffer + would be to store the messages in a consolidated buffer then only write once, + this buffer (i.e just before call the kernel) with flushLogToIOREG(); + The other public function for writing chameleon boot info data would be: + + verbose() should incorporate a call to logMessageToIOREG() + to permit helper applications to extract + this log info (i.e: the chameleon system pref pane) + +- Add API for displaying and logging messages like: + + void verbose(...) + { + ... + logMessageToIOREG("%s: %sn", title, s); + + } + + void display_and_log( const char* title, const char* msg) + { + printf("%s: %sn", title, s); + logMessageToIOREG(title,s); + } + + void deprecated(const char * s) + { + display_and_log("WARNING: Deprecated option",s); + sleep(1); + } + + void error_message(const char * s) + { + display_and_log("ERROR",s); + getc(); + } + + - Case unsensitive parsing for the bootConfig options: + should help the common/novice user to setup more easily.