Re: [Freedos-kernel] Kernel changes

2011-04-08 Thread Pat Villani
You can release it, but I want to put it together with other updates and finally generate v1.1. Pat On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 10:48 PM, Bart Oldeman bartolde...@users.sourceforge.net wrote: Hi, thanks to Damien Guibouret the problem with file corruption in kernel 2039 finally seems to be

[Freedos-kernel] SourceForge.net Bug Tracker

2010-08-21 Thread Pat Villani
Folks, Can you review the bug tracker at https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=5109atid=105109 and let me know what's valid. missing, etc.? I'm trying to plan/assign bug fixes. Pat Villani Project Coordinator

Re: [Freedos-kernel] Power management for Freedos kernel?

2010-07-20 Thread Pat Villani
It's still active of sorts. I'm in the process of defining the road map, and input like this is very useful. We have FDAPM, but I'm not familiar with your GPU, and have no idea if it works with FDAPM. I don't know if there's anyone else that has an answer for you. Pat Project Coordinator On

Re: [Freedos-kernel] CRITICAL BUG - crosslinked files - 2039 unusable

2010-01-08 Thread Pat Villani
There is work going on, but noe estimate to completion. I would tend to agree, use 2038 until it is fixed. Pat Project Coordinator On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 3:03 AM, dos386 dos...@gmail.com wrote: I have prepeared a new FreeDOS distribution for REAL USE in the field Is there anyone working

[Freedos-kernel] Distribution for REAL USE (was Re: CRITICAL BUG - crosslinked files - 2039 unusable)

2010-01-08 Thread Pat Villani
Hello Alain, I probably missed it. What is different about your distribution? f it is a major imrpvement to what we have, why not distribute it as a FreeDOS distribution? Pat On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 7:54 AM, Alain Mouette ala...@pobox.com wrote: Hi all, first of all, Happy ne year :) Is

Re: [Freedos-kernel] [SPAM] UNSUBSCRIBE

2009-11-30 Thread Pat Villani
You need to go to https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-kernel, as shown on the bottom of the email, and follow instructions on that page. Pat On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 3:39 PM, m...@pixoled.com wrote: UNSUBSCRIBE

[Freedos-kernel] NOT PUBLIC DOMAIN (was Re: Possible size optimizations, kernel build 2039 bug in tracker)

2009-11-28 Thread Pat Villani
Allow me to make this perfectly clear: the FreeDOS kernel * IS NOT PUBLIC DOMAIN* and will never be. Please do not spread such rumors. Just to make mys elf perfectly clear, the FreeDOS kernel *IS NOT PUBLIC DOMAIN*. In fact, unless a package has documentation that says it is public domain, make

Re: [Freedos-kernel] NOT PUBLIC DOMAIN (was Re: Possible size optimizations, kernel build 2039 bug in tracker)

2009-11-28 Thread Pat Villani
Thank you. I will follow through on that. Pat On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 8:26 AM, Eric Auer e.a...@jpberlin.de wrote: Hi Pat, Allow me to make this perfectly clear: the FreeDOS kernel *IS NOT PUBLIC DOMAIN* and will never be. Please do not spread such rumors. I do not see such rumors

[Freedos-kernel] A call for volunteers for 1.1 development

2009-08-22 Thread Pat Villani
There's quite a bit of interest in producing version 1.1 on some of our other lists. As a result, I'm putting out a call for volunteers. I know when it comes to the kernel developers, there has been continual development activity and I'm hoping that you will continue to help with version 1.1. My

Re: [Freedos-kernel] new kernel released

2009-08-06 Thread Pat Villani
On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 12:01 PM, Tom Ehlert t...@drivesnapshot.de wrote: *** SNIP *** just wondering, why a) this wasn't advertised on this list and Oversight. b) why there isn't a 386-fat32 binary available (hardly anyone even knows where he might see a real 8086 machine), and the 386

[Freedos-kernel] Fwd: [Freedos-user] Thanks for the new kernel, 2039

2009-08-05 Thread Pat Villani
Just in case you missed it. Pat -- Forwarded message -- From: MegaBrutal megabru...@gmail.com Date: Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 6:26 AM Subject: [Freedos-user] Thanks for the new kernel, 2039 To: freedos-u...@lists.sourceforge.net Dear FreeDOS developers, I'm a humble user (and fan)

Re: [Freedos-kernel] Building kernel 2038, compiles fine but hangs during boot.

2009-08-02 Thread Pat Villani
On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 9:29 PM, Bart Oldemanbartolde...@users.sourceforge.net wrote: *** SNIP *** Or you can try the new 2039 release -- see sf.net/projects/freedos but not yet officially announced. Having trouble logging into ibiblio. When I get it uploaded there, I'll make the

[Freedos-kernel] Freedos OS can't detect my cd-rom, or the cd driver cannot be loaded problem? - Yahoo! Answers

2009-07-31 Thread Pat Villani
Hi Folks, Sonmeone is having trouble and it's up on one of the yahoo sites: http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090730064519AAdKTRN Can someone here have a look at the question and tell them about drivers and config.sys? Thanks. Pat

Re: [Freedos-kernel] Freedos OS can't detect my cd-rom, or the cd driver cannot be loaded problem? - Yahoo! Answers

2009-07-31 Thread Pat Villani
Thank you. Pat On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 1:33 PM, Jackie McBride able...@gmail.com wrote: Pat, I'm taking care of it. It's the least I can do to help u guys. On 7/31/09, Pat Villani p...@monmouth.com wrote: Hi Folks, Sonmeone is having trouble and it's up on one of the yahoo sites

[Freedos-kernel] FYI

2009-07-31 Thread Pat Villani
I've been seeing reports of FreeDOS crashing on machines it's installed on. I've also gotten some direct email from people about applications that ship with FreeDOS and then there are problems. I guess with the wider use of our little projects, we'll see and here more of these. What I'm doing

Re: [Freedos-kernel] new kernel release pending

2009-07-29 Thread Pat Villani
Jeremy, Do you have a binary of what you will be tagging? I'd like to test it. Pat P.S., I can't build it because my development notebook is dying. On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 10:23 AM, Kenneth J. Davis jere...@fdos.org wrote: Assuming no objections, I will tag and make available kernel 2039

Re: [Freedos-kernel] new kernel release pending

2009-07-29 Thread Pat Villani
On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 2:06 PM, Eric Auer e.a...@jpberlin.de wrote: *** SNIP *** Pat: Jeremy wrote earlier that current SVN binaries are always at: http://fdos.org/kernel/ke386f32.zip - 386+, FAT32 enabled kernel http://fdos.org/kernel/ke86f16.zip - 8086+, FAT16/12 only kernel now

Re: [Freedos-kernel] Copyright owners for kernel license

2009-07-28 Thread Pat Villani
As FreeDOS project coordinator, just email here and you'll contact me. So you just did ;-) Way back in the dark ages, Jim and I had a discussion about licensing and we pretty much settled on GPL. These licensing discussions continue today as well. I won't bore you with the details, but we

[Freedos-kernel] Web site ISP problems

2009-07-06 Thread Pat Villani
Over the weekend, the ISP that handles our DNS did an upgrade and unfortunately it didn't happen smoothly, so they are effectively down right now. Based on what we know, this may take some time before they can correct it. Until this is fixed, www.freedos.org will not be resolvable in DNS, so it

[Freedos-kernel] Thank you to kernel developers for new kernel 2038

2009-06-13 Thread Pat Villani
I would like to thank all the folks who have worked very hard to produce this latest kernel. Their effort is very much appreciated by myself and all the people who continue to use FreeDOS in various applications. I am looking forward to using this new kernel and updating the distribution. Pat

Re: [Freedos-kernel] kernel 2038 discussion stuck? history.txt changes

2009-05-31 Thread Pat Villani
Folks, I am not as up to date on the changes as you may be. I'm looking for a volunteer (or volunteers) to update history.txt for 2038 and 2039. When I get the updated files, I'll follow through and get them on the web sites. Pat On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 9:05 AM, Eric Auer e.a...@jpberlin.de

Re: [Freedos-kernel] Hello again

2009-05-18 Thread Pat Villani
If half as much effort went into the code that has gone into this thread, we'd have rewritten the kernel several times over. Since I'm wrong about the kernel(?), let me put it to you this way. I want to put out a new release, FreeDOS v1.1 and get a plan in place. In 50 words or less, who is

Re: [Freedos-kernel] Which kernel

2009-05-18 Thread Pat Villani
This sounds liuke a good strategy. Pat On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 8:07 PM, ibid...@lavabit.com wrote: Hi Pat, I would say 2038 as default, 2037 (including winkrnl) as option--unless 2039 shows up first (doesn't look likely).  If 2039 gets something worthwhile, 1.11 is an option. Thank you,

Re: [Freedos-kernel] kernel 2038

2009-05-17 Thread Pat Villani
I'll take care of it tomorrow. Pat On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 11:11 PM, Kenneth J. Davis jere...@fdos.org wrote: Kernel 2038 tagged and available at http://www.fdos.org/kernel/latest/ Someone with access, please upload to ibiblio and release on SF. Please test and report any new issues to the

Re: [Freedos-kernel] Hello again

2009-05-14 Thread Pat Villani
OK, let me chime in on this. Jim and I had several conversations on topics like this before I took over. I want to share the current thinking. We, as a group, have made a significant impact on the open source community and computing in general. This is something we need to keep in mind as we

Re: [Freedos-kernel] Hello again

2009-05-14 Thread Pat Villani
Nope, I'm not doing anything other than trying to gather enough information with respect to project status to try to come up with a road map and possibly plan release 1.1. I have made *NO* decisions. Pat On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 4:26 PM, Eric Auer e.a...@jpberlin.de wrote: Hi Jeremy, ***

Re: [Freedos-kernel] What is what?

2005-01-12 Thread Pat Villani
+ hours per week all last summer in oder to meet schedule commitments. I'd love to be more active. Instead, best I can do is the occasional comment. *Sigh* Pat Interim FreeDOS Kernel Maintainer wrote: Arkady V.Belousov wrote: Hi! 11--2005 12:19 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Pat Villani) wrote to freedos

[Freedos-kernel] What is what?

2005-01-11 Thread Pat Villani
With all the unstable versions and private branches going around, what is the official kernel? Pat --- The SF.Net email is sponsored by: Beat the post-holiday blues Get a FREE limited edition SourceForge.net t-shirt from ThinkGeek. It's fun

Re: [Freedos-kernel] Re: [Freedos-cvs] kernel/kernel inthndlr.c,1.87.2.12,1.87.2.13

2005-01-05 Thread Pat Villani
That's really bad practice. The reason that it's there is so if, by reason of a bug or hardware failure of any sort, return_user() does really return, you will have bug that will be a nightmare to find. For the savings of less than 10 bytes, it's not worth the risk. Pat Arkady V.Belousov

Re: [Freedos-kernel] Re: [Freedos-cvs] kernel/kernel inthndlr.c,1.87.2.12,1.87.2.13

2005-01-05 Thread Pat Villani
and had no break at the end. The code fell into the next case and the system fell like a set dominoes. I'm not maintaining the kernel, so just my $0.02 -- which is worth less in Euros ;-) Pat Arkady V.Belousov wrote: Hi! 5--2005 08:30 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Pat Villani) wrote to freedos-kernel

Re: [Freedos-kernel] unused SFT fields - f_nodes not needed???

2004-11-02 Thread Pat Villani
The simple fact is that the f_nodes structure is not needed at all. Before I left the group several years ago, I was planning to rewrite the kernel specifically to eliminate f_nodes and move to SFT. The reason was precisely the incompatibility between this kernel and other programs such as

Re: [Freedos-kernel] unused SFT fields - f_nodes not needed???

2004-11-02 Thread Pat Villani
It's the original data structure used for file systems. It was designed originally as a structure that contained a semaphore, file system type identifier, and a union for file system data. It was simplified for the original DOS-C/FreeDOS kernel, and changes have been made by myself and