Hi everybody, Tom just said in the "A Poll of sorts" thread on -devel:
> just kick out the useless 2037 kernel > (merge any useful stuff into 2038); that's it Unfortunately, 2037 has an immense amount of changes and is based on 2035a. Still it would be interesting if people could mention some examples of 2037-things that would be useful for 2038 or 2039. Preferably things which are of limited complexity, not something like "remove fnode subsystem" :-). I think we should release a stable 2038 kernel before we start merging 2037 / unstable stuff into the main stable/trunk 2039 kernel again... Check our Bugzilla to see what is already fixed in SVN and what should be fixed (soon!) for 2038. Current "major" items are: 1658 Ghost 5.1 fails: Needs somebody with Ghost 5.1 to fix 1842 HMA usage fails: sounds more like himem bugs 1862 SUBST/CHDIR errors: Fixed in SVN :-) 1908 REN needs a scratchpad dir entry: A patch is in bugzilla? 1956 extending JFT (FILES=...) fails: Fixed in SVN :-) 1959 FILES table is fragmented: usually this is what you want, but a config option "all in 1 low RAM chunk" might help...? There are 20 normal, 2 minor and 12 enh bugzilla entries at the moment. The latter could be moved to the sourceforge wish (feature request) tracker, and one of them is already fixed in SVN (another, the int13 boundary DMA helper, has a TSR workaround available). The minor items are about the style of initdisk partition error messages and "DJGPP RHIDE graphical bugs, need a tester". Three of the normal items are, as far as I can tell, fixed in SVN: 1793 DJGPP GREP vs RHIDE, 1854 Turbo C++ 3, and 1953 int 21.29 vs drive existence. Several other normal items may in fact be fixed already but nobody has tested that yet ;-). It would be quite nice if we could do the REN fix and file table fragmentation config thing, and finally find out why Netware has problems. Then we should release an official 2038 FreeDOS kernel. Writing a nice changelog will be a considerable part of the work for that. Let me know if you want to help :-) We need: tester help, coder help and doc/changelog writer help. Thanks! Eric ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel