Re: Results-Oriented Work

[Alver <alver@jesuschrist.be>]

Glad to hear that 640K isn't the strict limit to be worked on... 
I almost feared I'd have to give up on my 512K 8086 :)

A.

On Wednesday 26 May 2004 16:05, Jody wrote:
> I am seeing a lot of ideas relating to swapping and protected mode support
> and far pointers and far pointer relocation and whatnot.
> 
> This is interesting discussion but I think we will make more headway if we
> take a results-oriented approach to this stuff in the beginning.  Less
> talking about whether to implement fancy 286pmode stuff and more coding to
> make things work, one at a time.  We have some TODO lists going and I think
> that we should start taking care of some of those things.
> 
> I got a luggable 256K PC-compatible.  Please code with the 256K machines in
> mind :)  Because the 640K machines are not always the norm.
> 
> Please code a LILO-like program for ELKS so we can have our friggin'
> software boot from a filesystem instead of a kernel floppy or something.
> That's the next thing I want to see, because all this kernel work is a
> little pointless to me if I can't run it off a filesystem of some sort.
> Many 8086 machines have hard drives, so if someone would take the time to
> do it, that would be awesome and lead to the possibility of an EDE with
> *open source* boot-loader software instead of that binary-only "bootkit."
> 
> To review:  we need working and stable code for core stuff.  Let's try to
> shift the focus there instead of spewing out huge lists of features to add.
> Features are nice but quite useless if the core is unstable.
> 
> My opinion.  Please do not attack.
> 
> Jody
> "w00t!"
> 
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