Re: HEADS UP: Dropping ISA EISA support
Hello. Sascha Wildner wrote: David Rhodus schrieb: I'm curious how the vga driver will be affected. I have a few old systems still in production that run console only that use ISA video cards. The vga driver is a special case and would remain unchanged for now (it initializes very very early through the backdoor and then attaches to the isa bus even for PCI cards). Another question I have is how the system will behave on old ISA-based chipsets, like i430 or i440 and some chipsets heaving an ISA-bus (some versions of i815 boards have the slot, while nothing was ever plugged in it)? A bad example of Linux kernels on non-MMX processors (unconditionally halts on any non-MMX CPU, like Cyrix 150+) is the thing I really fear of. Really it would be good to have some patch with a possibility to integrate it with a kernel rebuild process to the system to support ISA cards if it becomes necessary. Sorry for my poor English. --
Re: fdisk implementation [read this before deciding what to do]
Ok, time for me to reply again :). I started developing on this, as I mentioned in the first post. I have a first working interface draft and started to work on the real fdisk implementation by moving in core code from the dfly fdisk implementation I stopped development however when I read about Vincet's post, as I don't want to do unnecessary development work. I therefore suggest we first check what might come out of this, and I declare myself willing to help wherever needed. If it turns out that the tool is not releasable for some reason whatsoever I will continue working on the fdisk implementation. Does this sound reasonable ? Greetings, Tobias -- Jost Tobias Springenberg jspri...@uos.de If you plan to send me any personal or sensitive information please use GnuPG! My public key can be found at: http://www-lehre.informatik.uos.de/~jspringe/jspringe.gpg
