Basic Kernel Information

MorphOS/Quark has the following basic design goals

• High Super/Usermode switch speed
• Low interrupt latency
• IntThreads and Int PCode abstraction
• Memory protection
• Symmetrical multi processing (SMP)
• Task/Thread and Clan/Chief model
• Resource tracking
• Asynchronous message system
• Virtual memory (optional)
• Recursive Memory Management
• Distributed computing
• No access to Kernel structures
• Clean design with an elegant API
• Micro/pico kernel mixture

For this new kernel a HAL is used which provides the necessary hardware resource informations like scanning all zorro boards, pci boards and local hardware resources.