Re: [ros-dev] freeldr

2011-06-20 Thread Brian Palmer
in the process. -Original Message- From: ros-dev-boun...@reactos.org [mailto:ros-dev-boun...@reactos.org] On Behalf Of Alex Ionescu Sent: Monday, June 20, 2011 11:54 AM To: ReactOS Development List Subject: Re: [ros-dev] freeldr I googled for Alex Ionescu and Brian Palmer. First link: http

Re: [ros-dev] freeldr

2011-06-13 Thread Brian Palmer
support? -Original Message- From: ros-dev-boun...@reactos.org [mailto:ros-dev-boun...@reactos.org] On Behalf Of Alex Ionescu Sent: Friday, June 10, 2011 10:19 AM To: ReactOS Development List Subject: Re: [ros-dev] freeldr Last time I tried to do this Brian Palmer went ape-shit :) Best

Re: [ros-dev] Unable to use FreeLDR

2010-09-21 Thread Brian Palmer
It seems there are some severe technical limitations to a PE FreeLoader. Unless there are good reasons for it to remain a PE file (and I don't think easier debugging is a good reason), I would like to see the PE changes to FreeLoader reverted. -Original Message- From:

Re: [ros-dev] Unable to use FreeLDR

2010-09-21 Thread Brian Palmer
Message- From: ros-dev-boun...@reactos.org [mailto:ros-dev-boun...@reactos.org] On Behalf Of Timo Kreuzer Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 2010 2:33 PM To: ReactOS Development List Subject: Re: [ros-dev] Unable to use FreeLDR Brian Palmer schrieb: It seems there are some severe technical

Re: [ros-dev] Unable to use FreeLDR

2010-09-21 Thread Brian Palmer
Breaking the boot into multiple stages would certainly fix the problem, and as long as it gets implemented the PE version of FreeLoader should be fine. But I do have to wonder if we'll then see a push to make the first-stage boot code into a PE file also to make it easier to debug? (sorry, I

Re: [ros-dev] [ros-diffs] [akhaldi] 48687: [FREELDR] - Convert fat12/16 boot sector helper code to gas syntax. Brought to you by the Arty. [CMAKE] - Add freeldr and setupldr to build.

2010-09-07 Thread Brian Palmer
I guess I'll weigh in here... Personally I prefer Intel syntax, but that alone is not a good reason to keep it Intel. However, I have spent many hours (measured in man-months actually) testing, debugging, and stepping through this boot sector code (both on real hardware and simulators/emulators)

Re: [ros-dev] Re : [ros-diffs] [akhaldi] 48687: [FREELDR] -Convertfat12/16 boot secto

2010-09-07 Thread Brian Palmer
Since fathelp was already in Intel syntax originally, why did we require a new version from another branch? What was changed? -Original Message- From: ros-dev-boun...@reactos.org [mailto:ros-dev-boun...@reactos.org] On Behalf Of Sylvain Petreolle Sent: Friday, September 03, 2010 8:50 AM