[Freedos-kernel] fnode/sft changes

2009-05-21 Thread Bart Oldeman
Hi, I'm working slowly towards using SFTs in the kernel using a series of patches (so we can backtrack in case somebody finds a filesystem bug). The idea is to still use the near fnodes for internal use but to use only SFTs (no more far fnodes) for the file data. First the two had to be made comp

Re: [Freedos-kernel] Cross compilation from Linux

2009-05-21 Thread Bart Oldeman
2009/5/21 Eric Auer : > Not really - I think it would be tricky to put the config > variables in something that all used MAKE versions can deal > with directly, as opposed to having both a BAT and a MAK? There used to be (a long time ago) both a config.bat and a config.mak (for DOS!), where config

Re: [Freedos-kernel] Cross compilation from Linux

2009-05-21 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Bart, >> svn diff -r1386:1388 >> gives a diff of 14 kilobytes, 12 files modified, >> 46 lines changed, 170 lines added. Quite a lot. > Do you think the change is too big? Too big to say "read the diff" instead of explaining what and how you changed, but not too big as patch :-) Many of your

Re: [Freedos-kernel] Cross compilation from Linux

2009-05-21 Thread Bart Oldeman
2009/5/21 Eric Auer : > That is the point... > > svn diff -r1386:1388 > > gives a diff of 14 kilobytes, 12 files modified, > 46 lines changed, 170 lines added. Quite a lot. > Okay okay I can analyze the patch myself... :-( Some explanations > from the author would have saved some time here, of cou

[Freedos-kernel] pending kernel differences

2009-05-21 Thread Eric Auer
Hi, I found another patch on my disk which probably has not been applied to the stable kernel yet - please have a look and comment :-) - handle unusual floppy types - change some initdisk messages - re-enable DF_NOACCESS flag (correctly, I hope?) - change InitializeAllBPBs to avoid "FAT16 FAT32 a

Re: [Freedos-kernel] Cross compilation from Linux

2009-05-21 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Bart, > Can you be more specific? Did you look at the svn diff at all? That is the point... svn diff -r1386:1388 gives a diff of 14 kilobytes, 12 files modified, 46 lines changed, 170 lines added. Quite a lot. Okay okay I can analyze the patch myself... :-( Some explanations from the auth

Re: [Freedos-kernel] Cross compilation from Linux

2009-05-21 Thread Bart Oldeman
Hi Eric, > Interesting :-) How does it work (in other words, what was the > trick to make it possible) and how do the "config bat" settings > work in this context? :-) Can you be more specific? Did you look at the svn diff at all? Bart --

Re: [Freedos-kernel] ASUS problem

2009-05-21 Thread dos386
> Does anyone have any information or Idea about this problem? > Would any of Jack's driver help? Maybe __removing__ drivers and avoidable memory managers would be the more promising approach ... YES, a ramdisk (I use SRDISK) is a way to avoid the HD and possibly bugged INT $13 support. Also, a

Re: [Freedos-kernel] kernel 2038

2009-05-21 Thread dos386
Tested and didn't find anything eclatantly evil so far :-) - It works mostly, see shot: http://img211.imageshack.us/img211/4611/ker2038.png - "my" GetDiskFreeSpaceEx bug seems fixed - "history.txt" neglects any development, oops Eric already pointed it, also, the filename should be "HISTORY.T

Re: [Freedos-kernel] Cross compilation from Linux

2009-05-21 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Bart :-) > Jim reinstated SVN write access so I committed a patch that I have > used internally in a not so clean fashion for a long time: > cross-compiling from Linux using Open Watcom. The reason why: well it > is more convenient and quicker (less than 2 vs. 20+ seconds here) to > cross-comp