Re: [Freedos-devel] Porting the FAT filesystem (18)

2007-08-26 Thread enrico.migli...@libero.it
Hi Imre, > Eric told me you where working on something similar as me, > namely a portable FAT file system. that's right :-) > I am not aware of what your intentions are with this port, > so I am not going to try to steel this from you. > > But have you considered: > - that FreeDOS doesn't ha

Re: [Freedos-devel] Distro, Kernel, Sys and Freecom flavours

2007-08-26 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Tom, thanks for the hints! > TURBO C/FAT32: > you mentioned 'linker complains: TGROUP exceeds 64KB' somewhere. > > TGROUP is *all* code called near and is a fundamental limit of small > memory modell. If that's the problem, you got a real problem, as the > kernels memory model is a bit complic

Re: [Freedos-devel] Distro, Kernel, Sys and Freecom flavours

2007-08-26 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Tom Ehlert schreef: >> 6PS Bernd: Could you try to get in touch with some of the old >> experts to find any who can help me by fixing the kernel / >> That's what mailinglists are, I dont think anyone completely abandons reading here, even though it be through web archives (though sourceforge'

Re: [Freedos-devel] Distro, Kernel, Sys and Freecom flavours

2007-08-26 Thread Tom Ehlert
> PS Bernd: Could you try to get in touch with some of the old > experts to find any who can help me by fixing the kernel / TURBO C/FAT32: you mentioned 'linker complains: TGROUP exceeds 64KB' somewhere. TGROUP is *all* code called near and is a fundamental limit of small memory modell. If that'

Re: [Freedos-devel] Distro, Kernel, Sys and Freecom flavours

2007-08-26 Thread Japheth
> Same as with the kernel, could an OpenWatcom expert please give > me a hint how to say "farmalloc" (or fmalloc?) in a tiny memory > model compiled OpenWatcom app? This is all that would be needed > to compile SYS 3.3 in OpenWatcom :-). The sources are in Bugzilla: I'm not an OW expert, but _fmal

Re: [Freedos-devel] Distro, Kernel, Sys and Freecom flavours

2007-08-26 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Bernd, > As Eric Auer released a "bugzilla SYS 3.3" which starts confusing as > unofficial 3.x versions already exist, I agree that the "unstable kernel" SYS (which is also in the subversion system, but in a separate branch) should have a version number which is distinguishable from the "stab

Re: [Freedos-devel] Kernel, Sys and Freecom flavours

2007-08-26 Thread Florian Xaver
> Florian Xaver schreef: >> And there is another sys for Enhanced Dr-DOS from Udo Kuhnt at >> http://www.drdosprojects.de > Most likely the same SYS as I linked under '3.x' with support for > various DOS bootsectors. (unless the DRDOS version has been further > developed) I don't think so. Bye

Re: [Freedos-devel] Kernel, Sys and Freecom flavours

2007-08-26 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Florian Xaver schreef: > And there is another sys for Enhanced Dr-DOS from Udo Kuhnt at > http://www.drdosprojects.de > Most likely the same SYS as I linked under '3.x' with support for various DOS bootsectors. (unless the DRDOS version has been further developed) Bernd --

Re: [Freedos-devel] Kernel, Sys and Freecom flavours

2007-08-26 Thread Florian Xaver
> * SYS 3.2 (official FreeDOS) > * SYS 3.3 (Bugzilla, Eric Auer, cant be compiled by Openwatcom) > * SYS 3.x (Jeremy Davis and/or Blair Campbell, used for DRDOS, supports > opensource bootsectors for various DOS flavours except >MSDOS7.10/FAT32. This SYS is actually on the FREEDOS\SETUP\BIN > s

[Freedos-devel] Kernel, Sys and Freecom flavours

2007-08-26 Thread Bernd Blaauw
As Eric Auer released a "bugzilla SYS 3.3" which starts confusing as unofficial 3.x versions already exist, is it possible to get everything unified in the Subversion concurrent versioning system? To my knowledge we got: * Kernel 2036 (stable, all compilers) * Kernel 2037 (unstable/experimental,