On Jan 25, 2008 3:45 AM, William Lahti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I guess Jon accidentally sent this to me instead of the list. > > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Jonathan Dickinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Jan 25, 2008 1:39 AM > Subject: Re: [SharpOS Developers] Of metadata, hard drive images, and > including QEMU in the trunk > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > So now you accuse us of copying you? Rather than destructively > criticizing you I can offer you a few suggestions.
ReactOS had this long before either project even existed. If anything, we copied them. And before you or the ReactOS people said anything, we were already considering doing this. > Writing output to the serial: You might consider writing a small app > to gather useful information from that file (we can see heap usage and > such). We also have a test command that runs a few tests (still need > to write a lot more), that outputs to the serial file and we get the > test cases in our log app. You should think about using XML in the log > file -> makes things a bit easier. We had a bug where '\0' was being > put in the serial log from time to time: you can wrap the FileStream > class to pull those out so that the XML parser remains happy (not sure > if it was our code or QEMU, or if it has been fixed).\ I like the idea. > HDD access: go for ATA, but word-on-the-wire is that you have a DMA > controller. So you may not need to circumvent DMA, but it is easier to > use ATA. We don't need to implement HDD support, any more than we needed floppy controller support to boot SharpOS from floppy. This seems to be a common misconception. > QEMU, if the Windows users install it in C:\Program Files\Qemu it > should work fine. That's not what I heard, but I wouldn't know as I develop on Linux. Must be a new version that fixed the bug. Apparently it was trying to look in /c/Program Files/... which obviously failed. -- fury long name: William Lahti handle :: fury freenode :: xfury blog :: http://xfurious.blogspot.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ SharpOS-Developers mailing list SharpOS-Developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sharpos-developers
