From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tommy McCabe Subject: Re: Results-Oriented Work Date: Wed, 26 May 2004 15:30:59 -0700 (PDT) Sender: linux-8086-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20040526223059.6947.qmail@web51310.mail.yahoo.com> References: <01c001c4432a$7112c740$0101a8c0@vash> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: In-Reply-To: <01c001c4432a$7112c740$0101a8c0@vash> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-8086@vger.kernel.org --- 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. I agree- but I said the same thing a few days ago, and no one noticed. > 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 __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Friends. Fun. Try the all-new Yahoo! Messenger. http://messenger.yahoo.com/