Yeah, I second that. It took me three days of working on it for about an
hour a day interrupted by many distractions to write a patch for the new
Red Hat kernel.
I can't guarantee the patch is perfect or anything, but it seems to work
fine, it seemed logically correct when I wrote it. The only issue was that
the PnPBIOS support takes extra slots in the GDT, big deal.
Most of the time I spent was trying to figure out exactly how the patch
worked. Once I figured it out it was very easy to modify it. Netraverse's
developers I would imagine have the advantage of knowing the system a bit
better than I do so I cannot understand why it would take them so long to
write a new patch.
It is possible that they are merely trying to test it properly before
releasing it. If that is the case I strongly urge them to release early
release often, just note that it hasn't been thoroughly tested beyond the
point that the kernel boots. Maybe they could even run win or even dos
which would take all of about a maximum of 10 minutes to boot and run the
program.
Note that since Win4Lin version 1 it has taken a long time for
Trelos/Netraverse to release patches even for stock kernel source. Usually
I have hacked my own together (and sent it to netraverse) and they come
back two weeks later with damn near the same patch with maybe an extra
change that doesn't really change the way it works just the way the code
looks.
It would really be helpful to know what in the hell is going on that takes
them so damn long to release kernel patches. As has been stated before,
they should be working on kernel patches throughout the prerelease cycle
and not wait until the kernel has been released for months.
Anyway, I am stopping here because I am already way off in rant-land.
-Dave
On 2001.08.07 22:06 Richard Lemay wrote:
> I though RedHat and Netraverse had some kind of deal regarding that
> matter.
> Wasn't RedHat supposed to help building the necessary kernel for
> Netraverse?
> Or maybe I just completely misunderstood the news? :)
>
>
>
> Le 5 Ao�t 2001 06:57, vous avez �crit :
> > Our developers are working on it. There is some extra development work
> > needed, and they are working on a way to try to handle it without
> changing
> > the kernels too much. As we are also working on fixing support for some
> of
> > our broken kernels, and working on building kernels for new
> distributions
> > (SuSE 7.2, new Red Hat 7.1 kernel, etc), our kernel developers have a
> lot
> > on their plates right now.
> >
>
[snip]
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