Add more options for global init

[MEMESCOEP]

I've added the following options to HAL2.Global.Init:

• InitSerial
• InitPCI
• InitACPI
• Init AHCI

This gives more control to the developer because they can enable/disable certain drivers and initialization steps, which may be helpful when certain drivers/devices/features aren't needed, or the developer is writing their own.

[MishaProductions]

I think that the better approach would be to move everything from Global.Init to the project template.

[MEMESCOEP]

I think that the better approach would be to move everything from Global.Init to the project template.

That could work, but then we'd have a bunch of checkboxes everywhere. Unless we find a different way of course

[MishaProductions]

I meant to move it to Kernel.BeforeRun()

[MEMESCOEP]

I meant to move it to Kernel.BeforeRun()

Does that mean calling every init function in Kernel.BeforeRun() instead of global.init? I don't really see any advantages. Would we have to make new functions for each initialization step?

[quajak]

I think the idea is that we provide a initialise function, which anyone can then implement themselves if they want to change it. Rather than using this flag based approach.

[MEMESCOEP]

I think the idea is that we provide a initialise function, which anyone can then implement themselves if they want to change it. Rather than using this flag based approach.

how would we implement this though? Maybe a function that can be overridden?

[quajak]

how would we implement this though? Maybe a function that can be overridden?

Yeah, that is what I was thinking

[selkij]

Would be better like that but please add so that we can do this with every part of cosmos, even the vga screen so that we can really just initialise what is only needed for the user

[selkij]

PS/2 driver, ac97 (dont really remember the name)... you get the point

[selkij]

Or we can make it a List and then use foreach to execute all of them (so the type would be Action) https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.action?view=net-7.0

[zarlo]

Would be better like that but please add so that we can do this with every part of cosmos, even the vga screen so that we can really just initialise what is only needed for the user

that can already be done you can override the virtual method in your Kernel (OnBoot, Start or GetTextScreen in the case of vga screen) or you can make a plug to override what cosmos does

[quajak]

that can already be done you can override the virtual method in your Kernel (OnBoot, Start or GetTextScreen in the case of vga screen) or you can make a plug to override what cosmos does

Then is there any reason to add more configuration options?