The implementation of Printf has been moved from the early package to
the kfmt package. The dependency to ActiveTerminal has been removed and
the code now uses an io.Writer for its output. As Go interfaces cannot
be used before bootstrapping the Go runtime, the code uses a ring-buffer
fallback for storing any kernel output emitted before that point.
The ring-buffer implements both io.Reader and io.Writer and uses a fixed
size of 2048 bytes (set by the ringBufferSize constant). This provides
enough space to hold a standard 80x25 screen's output.
This commit refactors the old VT implementation to work with the revised
TTY interface and adds support for:
- scrollback
- terminal state handling
When a terminal becomes activated, it overwrites the attached console
contents with the contents of its viewport.
Things like error messages (e.g in the io pkg) are actually allocated
when init() is executed. Unless we trigger a call to init(), values like
this will be nil causing various problems when we try to use functions
from the stdlib.
By setting up pwd as a Go workspace, we can trim import paths from
something like "github.com/achilleasa/gopher-os/kernel" to just
"kernel".
These changes make forking easier and also allows us to move the code to
a different git hosting provider without having to rewrite the imports.
