Hallo Herr Eric Auer, am Sonntag, 23. Mai 2021 um 19:10 schrieben Sie:
> Hi Tom, >>> PS: I am busy checking Bret's GPT code for making a version which >>> kernel developers can read (it is NASM) to write a C version of the >>> algorithm and add that to the FreeDOS kernel. >> pretty much waste of time. > It is always nice to have some example code for things. >> reading the GPT specification and implementing it in C is much more >> efficient, and much less error prone then convertinh foreign NASM code > My suggestion was not to convert the code, but to use it as a > reference for knowing what to take care of when parsing GPT. it's probably easier to go to wikipedia et. al. then going to someone's implementation of wikipedia. > Which apparently is not trivial enough, otherwise somebody > would have added it to the kernel long ago. there are a lot of reasons for that: nobody complains that this is a problem. so why waste time and effort on this? it's not particularly useful. few people want to boot DOS AND access GPT partitions. It's nice that Bret's drivers can do this, but they are not in common use anyway. kernel development has stalled, and is completely at the mercy of the last developer, who often refrains from doing anything. >> feel free to implent GPT in initdisk.c >I was about to say the same ;-) exactly. provide working code or shut up. nobody needs your coding suggestions. Tom _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
