Hi Bart, admins, others, >> Would you like to have access again? Should be no problem :-)
> Sure! Apparently only Aitor, Jim and Pat can give you SVN write access but I think that would be a *very* nice idea... ;-). I noticed Pat already uploaded your SYS OW 1.8 fix :-). If you plan to patch things overlapping those things listed below, please announce so we can coordinate. You may also want to read the "state of kernel 2037" and "state of kernel 2038" threads on the freedos-user in Feb 2009. High on the wishlist for 2037 would be extending that SVN changelog wiki page and a backport of country sys support to 2038 stable. Eduardo may be considering to work on that backport... For SYS, I would suggest an option to enforce either LBA or CHS style boot, in particular for FAT32, via the command line. The wishlist for the stable 2038 kernel is quite short: Insert patches listed below, update changelog file and make a SF file release :-). Patches waiting here for review, comments, uploading: - *Bart*: SYS compileability with OpenWatcom C 1.8 and newer (in SVN) - Eric: dosfns.c / fatfs.c / proto.h SHARE tuning (safe afair) - Christian: entry.asm revamp to fix the CP/M call (review!) http://sf.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=2421577&group_id=5109&atid=105109 - Any: (?) update changelog, update my email addr in the docs http://freedos.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/freedos/kernel/trunk/?view=log - RayeR: init-mod.h always say BSS_INIT(x)=x (workaround OW bug?) - Tom: inthndlr.c bugfix for int 21.1c no-FAT case - RayeR: initdisk.c CHS cyl off-by-one and total_sectors overflow and DebugPrintf drive param format string fixes - Any: If DSSI points to partn (00 or 80) in FAT16/32 boot sector then take partn offset from DSSI+x (I *had* a patch but where??) - Eric: re-enable drive access flag handling to make unformatted drives more properly unformatted, disk tools should be fine now? - Christian: patch related to exit/resident if self-owned PSP (he pasted the patch in a recent thread on the mailing list) - Any: (Eric?) support 4 GB file size by changing sft_size, sft_posit to unsigned (dir_size, f_offset already are) and changing lseek error reporting (no longer treat "negative as fail") - seems you can let SftSeek accept ANY dos_lseek retval as errors are already checked by SftSeek itself before calling dos_lseek? DosSeek just calls SftSeek, needs no changes. The sft_size / sft_posit change might require adjustments to that at some places in the code. - Any: (?) support that extended open flag which allows sizes above 2 GB: DosRWSft should throw error 5 access denied if you try to write beyond that file offset if that flag is not set (shrug ;-)) - Any: implement int 2f.1228?? Apparently exists but commented out?? Thanks for the explanation of OW 1.8 / 1280 get/setftime un- DOS-ification of headers to gain MS VC / DJGPP compat ;-). Eric ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Register Now & Save for Velocity, the Web Performance & Operations Conference from O'Reilly Media. Velocity features a full day of expert-led, hands-on workshops and two days of sessions from industry leaders in dedicated Performance & Operations tracks. Use code vel09scf and Save an extra 15% before 5/3. http://p.sf.net/sfu/velocityconf _______________________________________________ Freedos-kernel mailing list Freedos-kernel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-kernel
