Re: [Freedos-kernel] Which kernel

2009-05-19 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Pat, This sounds liuke a good strategy. I would say 2038 as default, 2037 (including winkrnl) as option--unless 2039 shows up first (doesn't look likely). If 2039 gets something worthwhile, 1.11 is an option. I agree - same as in 1.0, the stable kernel is the default and the unstable

Re: [Freedos-kernel] Hello again

2009-05-19 Thread Christian Masloch
Still no reason to add experimental things to stable now :-) The solution is easy: Add it to the UNSTABLE fork No. Because first, I don't develope DOS-C, and second, forking is bad and makes merging changes back in harder. Since your opinion seems to be that filesystem extensions can never

Re: [Freedos-kernel] Hello again

2009-05-19 Thread Christian Masloch
Indeed JAM only works on non-FAT32 kernels because of different data structures... Any other different structures besides the SFT? JAM apparently needs the start cluster of the compressed disk file so it can use lowlevel (int 25/26...?) calls to access that file without causing reentrancy

[Freedos-kernel] Cross compilation from Linux

2009-05-19 Thread Bart Oldeman
Hi, 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-compile than fire up