
Reportedly, Kurt Skauen hasn't work on
AtheOS for the last 9 months, as he currently taking some long vacations away from his pet project. All this time, a lot of dissapointments have been expressed in the (dying)
mailing list about the future of AtheOS, already a (semi-)fork has occured with Cosmoe, but still no word from Kurt if or when he will start working on AtheOS again.
Update: It seems that a
complete fork has already happen, created by some of the main third party AtheOS developers.
I was going to tackle the DMA part of the IDE driver, adding to William Rose's code base, but I didn't have a second computer to debug. I will help tackle the development, if someone is willing to donate a computer for Serial line debug output.
I will say, for those that are driver writers, the code is very nice C++ that is easy to extend and those that no more about DMA and ATA might have a quicker time improving the IDE Driver than I would have. (Hooooo. The possiblility of a Disk Virtual Memory.)