That's great! This gives me more motivation to finish the fastfat rewrite and test your branch with that driver.
On Nov 9, 2009, at 12:21 PM, <[email protected]> <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm pleased to announce that I've been able to boot reactos to the > shell from an ext2 partition. This is something we've wanted for a > long time and many of us have worked on. I've synced up arty-newcc > to the current state of my git repository. This work is > experimental, not quite complete, and has some important limitations: > > - It probably won't currently work for a partition larger than 4gig > and might even fail for one larger than 2gig. This limitation is > lifted by other, unrelated code in my tree that I haven't merged yet. > > - It probably has a lot more bugs left, especially in block > allocation for large files. > > - Some parts of the new section implementation leak pages. > > I was planning to, but haven't yet made the new and old cache and > cc and section implementations available side by side. The main > work of separating the new files involved in the section > implementation (now in ntoskrnl/mm/section/*) is done. This will be > necessary when I merge it into the main tree, at least for > regression testing. > > Despite the branch being named for me, I invite anyone to work on, > modify, or bugfix arty-newcc. This advance has been a long time > coming, and I'd like to thank everyone for keeping the faith. _______________________________________________ Ros-dev mailing list [email protected] http://www.reactos.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-dev
