Eric Auer wrote:
Hi, after a while we found that only the Lucho / Arkady kernel
has working VERSION=, ...
If it is broke in stable and fixed in dev, then it should
be fixed in head soon. Please people, the kernels are not
Lucho/Arkady vs Tom/..., they are stable and development (unstable).
... which reminds me that we have too many versions:
There is exactly one (1) kernel; in cvs there are two (2) branches
and many versions (from the original Pat release up to current
cvs versions). There are are also forks I'm sure, Tom for one has
one of these, but as he makes available his kernel, any bugfixes
in his should show up in sourceforge one, time permitting.
- outdated 2035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
See history.txt in the docs directory.
Also see http://www.fdos.org/kernel/head2unstable.diff if you are
curious of the difference (minus new files) between stable & dev.
- 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.!?
Please note, you can easily ignore identation changes with a few diff
options, that is largely why I don't care if they are made or not.
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.
As best I know (though haven't double checked through my email) all
patches are integrated in dev branch, so its history.txt should tell
you everything that has changed (recent additions are mostly organized
by person then file), and a cvs diff can get you the patch.
Tom, are you planning to publish your kernel variant? In either case,
Tom has said on several occasions his kernel is available upon request.
[Note: I see looking ahead he has provided a URL.]
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 ...
what happened to 2035a? :-)
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
I'm still reviewing the patches in the dev branch and merging into
stable. Any that make it in that others strongly disagree with can
always be reverted (such as the recent thread started by Bart). I'm
trying to be conservative in what goes into stable, but limiting the
divergence at the same time.
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.
...
>
> Eric.
comments/reviews/discussions (not arguments) on patches/bugs/regressions
are of course always welcome. Please be patient with me though, I have
but a few hours a week (squashed between sleep and my jobs) to work on
projects.
Jeremy
:-)
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