minor readme changes

2 files changed, 30 insertions, 82 deletions

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 4b9dee0..6566420 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 Welcome to FoolOS
 =================
 
-
 Disclaimer
 ----------
 
@@ -9,13 +8,15 @@ THIS IS A WORK IN PROGRESS.
 
 This is a simple and useless "operating system", with very basic 
 features, sorry. It is the fruit of my fundamental explorations of 
-the x86 architectures,  32-bit protected mode, interrupt handling, 
-memory management, scheduling, the floppy disk controller, networking 
-as well as VESA and a couple of other things.
+the x86 architectures and operating system design.
+
+We have (or had) 32-bit protected mode, interrupt handling, 
+memory management, scheduling, a floppy disk controller, mouse 
+as well as VESA and a couple of other things. networking is a big goal.
 
 ![Screenshot of FoolOS](/screenshots/foolos.png?raw=true "FoolOs Kernel")
 
-Copyright M.Idziorek 2014-2015 <m.i@gmx.at> unless stated otherwise!
+Copyright M.Idziorek 2014-2015,2018 <m.i@gmx.at> unless stated otherwise!
 
 THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
 IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
@@ -34,35 +35,31 @@ Requirements:
     
 * OS Specific Toolchain [1]
 
-    binutils-2.25
-    gcc-5.1.0
-
-* Newlib 2.2.0 [2]
-    
-    (newlib-2.2.0.20150423.tar.gz)
-
-    adapt config.sub (add -foolos*) and build in a separate direcotry.
-
-    $ ../newlib-xxx/configure --target=i686-foolos --prefix=/home/miguel/opt/gcc-5.1.0-foolos/
+    binutils-*
+    gcc-*
 
-    $ make
-    $ make install
+* Newlib * [2]
 
 * GRUB2
 
+https://wiki.osdev.org/GCC_Cross-Compiler
+ftp://ftp.fu-berlin.de/unix/languages/gcc/releases/gcc-8.2.0/gcc-8.2.0.tar.gz
+https://sunsite.icm.edu.pl/pub/gnu/binutils/binutils-2.31.1.tar.gz
 
+https://wiki.osdev.org/Porting_Newlib
+ftp://sourceware.org/pub/newlib/newlib-3.0.0.20180802.tar.gz
+https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/autoconf/autoconf-2.68.tar.gz
+https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/automake/automake-1.11.6.tar.gz
 
+MAKE DIFF OF NEWLIB !
+
+DID NO TRY YET
+https://www.musl-libc.org/releases/musl-1.1.19.tar.gz
 
 Usage
 -----
-
-Attach the FoolOS.img or FoolOS.vdi image in your favourite emulator and 
-boot or create a bootable USB stick by copying the raw data in the 
-following way:
-
-$ cat FoolOS.img > /dev/sdX
-
-
+Use the FoolOS.iso in your favourite emulator or `dd` to an usb stick 
+and test on real hardware.
 
 Supported Platforms
 -------------------
@@ -75,14 +72,14 @@ FoolOS is tested/developed on the following emulators/machines
 * virtual box 4.1.18
 * Acer Aspire 1810TZ (Notebook)
 * Q6600 on Asus p5n32-e sli plus (Desktop PC)
+* 4790K on Asus (Desktop PC)
 
 Features
 --------
 
 Please note that all features are only very rudimentary and buggy.
-Some might be disabled temporarily due to conflicts or regressions.
+Some might have been disable (temporarily) due to conflicts or regressions.
 
-* Bootloader (2 stages)
 * ELF binaries
 * PIT support / Timing
 * PIC support & Interrupt handling framework
@@ -96,6 +93,7 @@ Some might be disabled temporarily due to conflicts or regressions.
 
 Fetures are under this line are currently disabled / not developed:
 
+* Bootloader (2 stages)
 * VESA Support
 * PS2 Mouse driver
 * Floppy disk driver
@@ -106,19 +104,16 @@ Fetures are under this line are currently disabled / not developed:
 Todos
 -----
 
-* smp
-* porting ncurses? (Does this require g++ toolchain?)
-* Port more software (vim, coreutils, gcc, apache?)
+* Porting (ncurses, gcc, binutils, vim, apache...)
 * Support some TTY standard (xterm)
-* implement read syscall!
+
 * /dev/console 
 * /dev/kb
 
 * E1000 driver (or some other easy network card driver) maybe NS2000 better?
 * Networking stack 
 
-* Port X? 2d drivers, 3d drivers? hw acceleration.
-* FPU?
+* GUI
 
 Issues
 ------
@@ -133,30 +128,6 @@ Issues
 * Assumed support for VESA mode 0x114 with linear addressing. (let the user select)
 * fixed size of process images!
 
-
-Organization
-------------
-
-* screenshots/ - latest screenshot
-
-* userspace/ - userspace related code
-
-* boot1/ - 2nd stage bootloader
-* boot2/ - 1st stage bootloader
-
-* asm/	- kernel assembler code
-
-* kernel/ - kernel source
-
-* lib/ - some helper sources and includes
-* fs/	- file system related source
-* video/ - screen output (VESA and text)
-
-* font/ - Fonts for VESA
-
-* bochs/ -Bochs config files
-
-
 REFERENCES
 ==========
 
@@ -169,17 +140,7 @@ REFERENCES
 * http://forum.osdev.org/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=10944
 * http://wiki.osdev.org/Virtual_8086_Mode
 * http://wiki.xomb.org/index.php?title=ACPI_Tables
+* http://wiki.osdev.org/Hosted_GCC_Cross-Compiler
+* https://sourceware.org/newlib/
 * and many many more...
 
-[1] http://wiki.osdev.org/Hosted_GCC_Cross-Compiler
-[2] https://sourceware.org/newlib/
-
-NOTES
-=====
-in freestanding mode we can just use this c lib headers: 
-stdbool,sddef,stdint,
-float,iso646,limits,stdarg
-
-sudo losetup /dev/loop1 disk.img -o 1048576
-
-
diff --git a/toolchain b/toolchain
deleted file mode 100644
index 8398af3..0000000
--- a/toolchain
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
-https://wiki.osdev.org/GCC_Cross-Compiler
-ftp://ftp.fu-berlin.de/unix/languages/gcc/releases/gcc-8.2.0/gcc-8.2.0.tar.gz
-https://sunsite.icm.edu.pl/pub/gnu/binutils/binutils-2.31.1.tar.gz
-
-https://wiki.osdev.org/Porting_Newlib
-ftp://sourceware.org/pub/newlib/newlib-3.0.0.20180802.tar.gz
-https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/autoconf/autoconf-2.68.tar.gz
-https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/automake/automake-1.11.6.tar.gz
-
-MAKE DIFF OF NEWLIB !
-
-DID NO TRY YET
-https://www.musl-libc.org/releases/musl-1.1.19.tar.gz