Okay.

I was burnt out. From this project, from the entire OS stuff. For the last few months, I honestly couldn't find a single reason to continue the development of Microkernel. So I resolved to doing other things——making 8-bit architectures, tinkering with arduino, and heck, even trying music composition.

In that time, the gap year——I honestly didn't see much point of doing this project longer. After all, who's going to "use" it? What's really worth when literally "nobody" cares? This, this project felt like an abandoned train station with nobody to carry. It felt like a hollow, overgrown garden left to decompose inside my drive. I hated that project. I hated how it came to be. I hated myself for making it like that. I hated how I spent whole bunch of time to something that would come out like this. I hated how I can't even help myself to fix things, because it just felt so pointless. I hated, how I was so drained of everything that I just couldn't do anything.

Gap year wasn't the best time of my life. College admissions, uncertainty, loneliness. It kind of broke me. I wasn't as productive as I used to be in highschool years. I'd just spend times as if they were infinite, spending countless hours throwing myself into brainless activities. Watching YouTube, playing Minecraft, etc. Well, in retrospect, I really was burnt out. At some point I remember that I even thought that my whole life doing OS is totally meaningless.

Well, thankfully, now I got out from that swamp of emotions.

Sorry for venting like that. Why am I apologizing.. I'm sure not even dozens of people in this earth would read this. Who cares!

The point is, I got out of it, and I am more than eager to do this project.

I still have that lingering thought——about OS development being all meaningless, but when I looked at my project codes I wrote years ago, those feelings subsided. The inner fire inside me ignited again. Maybe, even though it might really be meaningless, it may become meaningful if you make it so. I don't know. I think all those times I spent arbitrarily doing and wasting, it wasn't as useless as I thought, because it "accidentally" became a some kind of catalyst to make me "get interested" again to this project.

Enough rambling. Now, this is my revised revised goal v2.

1. Finally complete that "project overview page" you've left it blank for years!!!
2. Document some bits of kernel that would be actually useful to people using this kernel.
3. Clean up some codes. There's lots of messes here, and I think there's no better way to get this project going other than cleaning up things.
4. Implement some "general" libraries. Like kernel linked list, hashmap, stuff like that. Right now, it's in a rough shape. From what I learned form CS128, we could change that a bit.
5. Actually implement features. PCI's half-implemented. There's no multi-tasking going on here. Application level? Advanced memory management(like paging, virtual memory allocation?)

Yeah.. there's lots of things to do, which honestly is a good thing! I get to make myself busy again, which is No. 1 favorite activity.

I just feel like this project has gone too far to just simply "abandon" and start all over. It's got solid systems and foundations, where I could actually "build" more things into it and make it better. I hope I don't give this project up. I hope, I stick onto this project longer so that it becomes something magnificent.