On 2022-01-23 22:47, Dale Cieslak (dcieslak) wrote:
> I was looking for info about Areas, and could only find info in the
Be Book. It seems like none of the Kernel Kit is part of the Haiku
book. Is there a reason for that, or is it just something that no one
has had time to document yet?
>
> I learned about at least one change to Areas that is different in
Haiku vs. BeOS so it'd be nice to write that down somewhere for other
people.
You're right, there's no kernel documentation in
https://git.haiku-os.org/haiku/tree/docs/user
So no info on kernel threads, memory areas, bigtime_t (though
SupportDefs.h docs mentions it) and lots of other functions. You have
to read the old Be Book
(https://www.haiku-os.org/legacy-docs/bebook/TheKernelKit.html) to find
it. And like you pointed out, some of it has changed and isn't documented.
So, what's the policy on doing kernel docs? Just list the differences
with BeOS? Or have documentation for the full set of data types and
functions? Or keep it secret and tell people to read the headers. :-)
- Alex
