On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 10:20 AM, Pat Villani <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Folks, > > It's been a while, and I have to admit I haven't been keeping up on > developments. Would the folks who have been working n the kernel, > officially or unofficially, get in touch with me and let me know what > you've been up to? > > Thanks. > > Pat >
Hi, Currently I am working on the 2038 release. That is, going through reviewing, modifying (usually comments), and committing the set of patches/bugfixes outstanding. This weekend I am going to tag and release 2038 - I lost most of my access to SF and all to ibiblio so I will tag, build, upload to fdos.org and announce, hopefully someone with access will put on SF and ibiblio. 2038 contains a lot of work done over the last couple years (and perhaps long overdue, my fault I suppose). Right now I am reacquainting myself with the code as it has been a few years myself since I really had time to do work. The dev branch is frozen - I ask (everyone is free to do as they please) bug reports be only against the current release (SVN or releases, but not against -UNSTABLE branch). Note that the work is not abandoned, the dev branch was originally meant as an easier method to get patches into the kernel, get tested, fixed, reversed, etc without too much bickering, with the intent to merge the important parts backs - alas I just did not have the time to continue that. Anyway, my future work on the dev branch is now done as a separate project (I call it the DOS-C kernel as opposed to the kernel discussed on this list, the FreeDOS kernel). When and if I have usuable work on my alternate kernel I'll mention it on the fd lists - basically my intent is to only support OW so I can simplify some of the code and work towards support for more filesystems (well that new tech one :-) and oddly enough some of the stuff Jim had mentioned on his page - however this will be 386+ and may break some backward compatibility, hence the spin off. Back to the topic on hand... Once 2038 is released I plan to continue reviewing any outstanding patches and apply as appropriate. My top priority is bug fixes - repeatable bugs will probably be fixed first :-) In no particular order my additional work will be merging work from the dev branch, specifically sys, country, & the perhaps some of the win hooks. The main bug/feature that I plan to work on is FAT+ support, the working with 4GB files goes along with this since it adds support for 4+GB files. EDR already supports this. Beyond that, a lot of it depends on what others discuss. Jeremy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The NEW KODAK i700 Series Scanners deliver under ANY circumstances! Your production scanning environment may not be a perfect world - but thanks to Kodak, there's a perfect scanner to get the job done! With the NEW KODAK i700 Series Scanner you'll get full speed at 300 dpi even with all image processing features enabled. http://p.sf.net/sfu/kodak-com _______________________________________________ Freedos-kernel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-kernel
