Hi, after a while we found that only the Lucho / Arkady kernel has working VERSION=, which reminds me that we have too many versions: - outdated 2035 - Jeremy has added an unknown amount of patches to CVS HEAD 2035a, but I have no idea if / how well those patches got reviewed and which bugs they fix - Tom has added only the best few lines of the Lucho / Arkady patches, those which OBVIOUSLY fix bugs, but will have missed several bugfixes which were hidden between optimizations - Lucho / Arkady produced a big amount of patches which mainly contain optimizations (hopefully not too compiler specific), but also important bugfixes, as well as hard to justify variable renamings, indendation changes, macro changes, etc.!?
So I suggest: Jeremy, please create a list of improvements / changes between 2035 and newest CVS kernel, and a way to download all patches separately (or in one big tgz/zip), along with short descriptions of them. Tom, are you planning to publish your kernel variant? In either case, could you help us to discuss the feature / bugfix differences between your and Jeremies kernel? I think it should be possible to sort the recent patches into important useful patches vs. tuning / optimization / experimental patches, to create a combined "Tom's and Jeremies best pick of all recent patches" kernel on which all parties could settle for a stable 2035b official release for freedos.sourceforge.net ... Finally Lucho and Arkady can comment on that by describing the advantages of the patches which did not made it into 2035b, and by pointing out which bugfixes should be added before 2035b would be published officially on SF.net ... In either case a list of patches, in a file, not spread over dozens of mails, would greatly improve the overview over the available improvements, dependency between patches, give a guide which helps to find relevant 2035 / 2035b differences in processing bug reports for either (!) of the two, give information which patches are considered to be stable and which are more obscure and therefore not yet reviewed well, and so on. There must be a lot of useful stuff in all those patches, but we might lose overview and miss all the goodies if the patch authors and kernel maintainers do not start to help mortal programmers like me to catch up with development and figure out what ingredients will be in 2035b and why 2035b will be quite a bit better than 2035. So please take some time and start with that effort - as patch authors you should be the best source of information and help towards a general consent about 2035b. Finally we will have good old 2035 Tom / Jeremy / list reviewed stuff which will become 2035b Arkady / Lucho / others (Eduardo, Tom, Bart...) patches waiting for 2035c or in other words only THREE different kernels, not four-or-more. Hopefully this is no too far fetched vision / suggestion. Thanks for reading :). Eric. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: YOU BE THE JUDGE. Be one of 170 Project Admins to receive an Apple iPod Mini FREE for your judgement on who ports your project to Linux PPC the best. Sponsored by IBM. Deadline: Sept. 24. Go here: http://sf.net/ppc_contest.php _______________________________________________ Freedos-kernel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-kernel