From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alver Subject: Re: Results-Oriented Work Date: Wed, 26 May 2004 16:13:17 +0200 Sender: linux-8086-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <200405261613.18031.alver@jesuschrist.be> References: <01c001c4432a$7112c740$0101a8c0@vash> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <01c001c4432a$7112c740$0101a8c0@vash> Content-Disposition: inline List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: linux-8086@vger.kernel.org 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!" > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-8086" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > >