Decision 2025-08-30, part 2

(interactive - up one level: magnetite_os/)

Title

Implement Shared Resources at the Source Level

Status

Accepted

Rationale

• A great deal of effort has been spent on curating the commit history in the working branches, so that binary-level dependencies effectively don’t exist (see Retrospect 2025-08-30).
• The bootloader and the kernel can be expected to be so complex and intertwined, that it would be indefensible to not share resources at the source level.

Consequences

• All past changes dedicated to implementing shared resources at the binary level have been rolled back (see above).
• Shared resources must be exposed at the source level, either as a Rust module, or as a Rust crate.
• Platform-specific behavior must be guarded off, and should only be exposed through platform-agnostic handles whenever possible.

Miscellaneous

N/A