Implement a basic filesystem, similar to FAT. We've already discussed how it'll work, it's in development currently.

Convert simple but slow I/O data transfer for ATA devices to faster but more complicated DMA

Some way to keep track of devices (hard disk, USB, network, etc).

Enumerate PCI-E to find devices. The device manager will enumerate, figure out what we're using, initialize them, etc.

Open question: How does the device manager expose these devices? Does it hook up a driver that we interface with, or does it expose the interface itself?

The RTC will no only allow us to read the current time, but will also let us make a stopwatch to check efficiency of methods

For kernel-related tasks, it's very useful to have defined alignments for some data structures. Add an allocation function for which you can define a precise alignment in bytes.

Context switch into a new process, changing page tables, etc. (LDT? Do we need one of those?), and context switch back on exit. (We'll probably have to add an exit system call).

Add some kind of functionality for registering a function with the timer that gets called every X ms.

How will we want to do this?
One big interrupt handler which calls the appropriate functions based on parameters to the system call?
We also need to switch to ring 0 from ring 3, so we must save information to be reloaded such as SS:ESP, common registers, etc.

The kernel heap currently only has a kheap_alloc function and a kheap_free function.

Implement a kheap_realloc function that's more efficient than calling kheap_alloc followed by kheap_free (if there's enough free space after the node that's already allocated, we can just extend into that).

Create a way to switch from VGA to VESA which will allow the OS to have a higher resolution screen display and so we can draw and change fonts :)

Communicate over USB

Moving the kernel to a "Higher Half" allows for fewer hiccups when using lower memory, such as with the Virtual8086 mode which allows the usage of BIOS interrupts.
Should be a simple paging setup.

Add a parameter to the ide device which allows checking if out of bounds.
Cache this on ideInitialize
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