Re: [ros-dev] [ros-diffs] [tkreuzer] 50243: [CMAKE] Add generation of a depencen

2011-01-01 Thread Ros Arm
CMAKE does have a built-in feature to generate GraphViz (dot) dependency graphs of a project. I am unsure why Timo wrote his own script to do so, but CMAKE can definitely do it. -r > Am 31.12.2010 17:58, schrieb Ged Murphy: > > I didn't know about this feature. > > Will this help the effort tow

[ros-dev] Unable to build ReactOS anymore

2010-11-23 Thread Ros Arm
Hello, Why everyone else had been complaining on how we should revert changes that expose compiler bugs, I, on the other hand, have not even been able to build ReactOS anymore starting with recent revisions (probably related to C++ changes). Anyone want to fix this, please? [PCH] obj-i38

[ros-dev] Video of ReactOS Booting on ARM

2010-11-22 Thread Ros Arm
Hello, As some have asked, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFNuY2OFRjU&hd=1 Cheers! -r ___ Ros-dev mailing list Ros-dev@reactos.org http://www.reactos.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-dev

Re: [ros-dev] [ros-diffs] [pschweitzer] 49662 : [NTOSKRNL] [HAL] Disable INIT_FUN

2010-11-20 Thread Ros Arm
Hi, Oops! Google Chrome could not connect to build.reactos.org:8010 It was a typo in my e-mail. I've used this website fine in the past before. -r > Hi > > Please try the correct address: http://build.reactos.org:8010/ > > 2010/11/20 Ros Arm > > > Hi, &

Re: [ros-dev] [ros-diffs] [pschweitzer] 49662 : [NTOSKRNL] [HAL] Disable INIT_FUN

2010-11-20 Thread Ros Arm
Hi, It appears your arguments are because you don't seem to understand what you have done wrong. Let me spell it out: " I know that r49463 only added INIT_FUNCTION to HAL, but I reverted both, just to be sure. I can get back ntoskrnl as they don't seem to be concerned." ie: "I know that my f

Re: [ros-dev] [ros-diffs] [pschweitzer] 49662 : [NTOSKRNL] [HAL] Disable INIT_FUN

2010-11-20 Thread Ros Arm
Hi, Considering that: - The code to throw out INIT sections isn't in trunk, so _nothing happens_ when a function is made INIT or not. - There were already many INIT functions in NTOSKRNL and the kernel worked fine - 49463 only added INIT_FUNCTION to the HAL - A later revision by Timo added INIT_

Re: [ros-dev] Something for the holidays?

2010-11-19 Thread Ros Arm
http://img209.imageshack.us/img209/5379/stuff0.png -r > http://img824.imageshack.us/img824/734/stuffy.png > > -r > > > ___ > Ros-dev mailing list > Ros-dev@reactos.org > http://www.reactos.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-dev

[ros-dev] Something for the holidays?

2010-11-17 Thread Ros Arm
http://img824.imageshack.us/img824/734/stuffy.png -r ___ Ros-dev mailing list Ros-dev@reactos.org http://www.reactos.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-dev

[ros-dev] Please revert changes to ClassPnp in CMAKE Branch

2010-10-30 Thread Ros Arm
Hello, The jgardou changes add thousands of whitespace changes which make it extremely hard to understand what is going on. Please to not arbitrarily change whitespace across 18 files in a patch! Also, there is nothing wrong with the way ClassPNP was defined before. If you think "How on Earth

Re: [ros-dev] Unable to use FreeLDR

2010-09-21 Thread Ros Arm
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: ros-dev-boun...@reactos.org [mailto:ros-dev-boun...@reactos.org] On > Behalf Of Ros Arm

Re: [ros-dev] Unable to use FreeLDR

2010-09-21 Thread Ros Arm
> Ros Arm wrote: > > Hello, > > > > After the switch in 48124 to PE FreeLDR, I am unable to boot FreeLDR any > > longer. > > > > I have tried official, as well as various unofficial freeldr.sys, none > > worked. > > > > 47892 version works

Re: [ros-dev] [ros-diffs] [sir_richard] 4882 5: [MISC]: Fix several compiler issu

2010-09-20 Thread Ros Arm
Unknown, this FIXME was copy/pasted from other .rbuild files which already contained similar hacks. Note: adding oldnames library does not fix the issue. -r > sir_rich...@svn.reactos.org wrote: > > Author: sir_richard > > Date: Mon Sep 20 06:30:21 2010 > > New Revision: 48825 > > > > > > + >

Re: [ros-dev] ASSERT while shutting down ReactOS with VirtualBox Guest Additions

2010-09-16 Thread Ros Arm
I believe it was communicated to my team we are shooting for win2003, not 2008, which is an entirely different kernel architecture (Vista/Win7). You should use a more appropriate driver, or file a bug with the driver developer. -r > I don't think this has anything to do with amount of memory.

[ros-dev] Unable to use FreeLDR

2010-09-12 Thread Ros Arm
Hello, After the switch in 48124 to PE FreeLDR, I am unable to boot FreeLDR any longer. I have tried official, as well as various unofficial freeldr.sys, none worked. 47892 version works fine, 48124 does not. On a 512MB IDE disk, I got the "_" VGA cursor scrolling endlessly/randomly on the scr

[ros-dev] 48748 "Goodbye" Confusion

2010-09-12 Thread Ros Arm
Hello, eVb checked in one of his final patches yesterday from his development machine in China, where we worked on a final pass on the driver. Unfortunately, my last two (unrelated) check ins were done from his machine (as most of you know, I was in China for the past month), and he was not use

[ros-dev] Regarding 48632

2010-08-27 Thread Ros Arm
Hello, Many thanks for fixing this idiotic oversight of mine. I apologies for the long hours of debugging I must have caused. This fix is somewhat incomplete/at the wrong place; could this be marked as such in the code, perhaps with a FIXME under my name, so that I may fix this correctly upon

[ros-dev] Freetype Patented Hinting

2010-07-26 Thread Ros Arm
Hello, A recent CMAKE commit has made me notice that a NOSWPAT option determines if FreeType hinting should be used or not. Please note that the Apple patent on the technology recently expired, and this option is not needed anymore, as hinting should always be enabled. -r

Re: [ros-dev] Communication Problems re 47514 & co.

2010-06-01 Thread Ros Arm
Hello, Thank you Cameron (47516). +1! Carry on! -r > Hello, > > First I was asked if a certain developer could talk to me regarding ARM3. I > said yes, never heard back, and then saw commits done to pfnlist.c. While > interesting and useful code, some communication would've been nice in orde

[ros-dev] Communication Problems re 47514 & co.

2010-06-01 Thread Ros Arm
Hello, First I was asked if a certain developer could talk to me regarding ARM3. I said yes, never heard back, and then saw commits done to pfnlist.c. While interesting and useful code, some communication would've been nice in order to talk about the goals, since much of that code is in flux (I

[ros-dev] Recent Bootvid Commit

2010-05-29 Thread Ros Arm
Hello! While the state of the original code is horrendous, and removing it was a step in the good direction, this simplified implementation omits many of the optimizations and specific VGA tricks that the original "author" of the code had intended to duplicate. If you'd like, I would be open t

[ros-dev] Need to speak out

2010-05-08 Thread Ros Arm
Hello, This is the second time that work that someone on the ARM Team has worked on has been mostly reverted without any communication with us, and incorrect changes have been added to parts of our work. The Eng function worked on even clearly stated comments such as "Compressed surfaces don't

[ros-dev] VGA Driver Status

2010-03-25 Thread Ros Arm
Good evening, Even past EngCreateBitmap fix in trunk, VGA driver I wrote still having many problems drawing, most with text output and colors. Example, desktop icon appear monochrome, not color. But Paint palette has 16 colors. When draw in Paint, white background become black! And after releas

Re: [ros-dev] [ros-diffs] [cgutman] 46237: - Add a hack to disable ACPI if VMwar

2010-03-17 Thread Ros Arm
I had told the channel not to do this because HAL ACPI does not exist yet. ACPI cannot work without it, other than by random chance or coincidence. -r > Very nasty. > > -- > From: > Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 2010 8:02 AM > To: > Subject: [ros-d

Re: [ros-dev] [ros-diffs] [evb] 45874: - New Framebuffer (Linear) Display Driver

2010-03-09 Thread Ros Arm
Hello Steven, I have talked with eVb and perhaps there is a language barrier: His commit message said that he used the NT4 DDK driver because the license does not prohibit it (especially as only a fraction of it is used). He then said that there have been some small number of changes since NT4,

Re: [ros-dev] [ros-diffs] [evb] 45873: - Add new unified VGA/VBE miniport driver

2010-03-05 Thread Ros Arm
Stipulation only exist in newer DDK, that why old sample used. Also, storage drivers in ReactOS are NT4 (atapi) DDK sample too, so why raising issue now? [eVb] > Does the EULA allow you to redistribute sample code without > stipulations? I seem to recall certain versions of the DDK requiring >

Re: [ros-dev] msvc build update

2010-02-04 Thread Ros Arm
Hi Jose, I think there are some misunderstandings regarding the GCC code base I would like to clear up inline. > Hi, > > Don't feel offended, the port to c is a very good thing and indeed better in > the most part than the previous asm implementation. I value your work very > much. > But there

Re: [ros-dev] msvc build update

2010-02-03 Thread Ros Arm
Hello, Would you care to comment on "unefficient" regarding the trap rewrite, please? The code is more efficient than previous assembly code, and more finely tuned than Windows' own code, which wasn't updated since 1989 when it was first designed (and is full of non-pairing, hazardous operation

Re: [ros-dev] [ros-diffs] [sir_richard] 4522 3

2010-01-23 Thread Ros Arm
> > Since __builtin_unreachable is only for GCC 4.5, we use > > exit(0) for now (it will never be reached) to trick GCC. > > There is also __builtin_trap() … > > ___ > Ros-dev mailing list > Ros-dev@reactos.org > http://www.reactos.org/mailman/listinfo/

Re: [ros-dev] [ros-diffs] [sir_richard] 4505 2: Patch that fixes VMWare boot (and

2010-01-12 Thread Ros Arm
Hi Timo, Regarding #1, we actually have this working in our tree. It was required for the new SYSENTRY C handler. So thank you for the advice and for pointing that out. Unfortunately I will not credit you for the idea since the code was already written, I hope this is understandable. We had to

Re: [ros-dev] [ros-diffs] [ros-arm-bringup] 44841: NMI Support Patch 1: [HAL]: T

2010-01-07 Thread Ros Arm
obably more complicated than that). So to close the topic: it is unclear if you have any ownership of those original 6 lines of code, and it is even further unclear if 6 lines of interface code in a 466 line module allow you the right to dictate the license of the module. -r > Ros Arm wro

Re: [ros-dev] [ros-diffs] [ros-arm-bringup] 44 841: NMI Support Patch 1: [HAL]: T

2010-01-05 Thread Ros Arm
years ago, it makes sense this code is now belong to us. It is Linux concept of "maintainer". Thanks you, [eVb] > "You may relicense my code as BSD" != "You make strip away > copyright/ownership of my code". > > Revert this. > &

[ros-dev] NMI Support

2009-12-31 Thread Ros Arm
Hello, I have identified a major deficiency in the x86 kernel that requires minor overhaul of multiple low-level components, and stems from poorly understood implementation details of the x86 architecture, which is NMI support. NMIs are Non Maskable Interrupts, similar to SMIs (generated for SM

[ros-dev] Thank you

2009-12-30 Thread Ros Arm
Dear ReactOS Members, We'd like to issue you our warmest holiday greetings and a happy new year! Withal, receive our cordial gratitude for the recent work on getting the ARM tree building again as well as for extending support for Windows and Mac OS X build systems throughout this troubled time