On 7/21/07, Eric Auer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Are there any volunteers to maintain the UNSTABLE > branch of the kernel?
I was looking into merging parts of UNSTABLE a few months ago but it's a lot of work since I don't like about half of the changes. And after that I ran out of time, and still am, just now spending a spare hour or two on FreeDOS. There are funny space savings in text strings just so that Lucho could get the compressed kernel under 40K. I found one bug in the inittext.c optimizations by Arkady. And so on. Although the ioctl.c restructuring is good, most of the chario.c savings also help. A lot more could be saved in initdisk.c by using the fact that the sector size equals 512 (the DOS code cannot assume that with ram disks etc, but the BIOS code needs to assume 512 because the BIOS int13 does not support any other size AFAIK -- though I've heard Aitor claiming some things about an old AT I do not understand how that can work -- what BIOS interface to use to figure out that sectors have 1024 bytes?). External country.sys and more windows 3.x support never hurt. Removing the internal country table makes things a little bit more dependent (Tom's point of having the internal table is that you don't need a country.sys file if all you want is the correct date-month-year display). Of course the internal table is not good for the 40K aim. Bart ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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-kernel mailing list Freedos-kernel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-kernel
