Re: Results-Oriented Work

Tommy McCabe
2004-05-26T22:30:59Z

--- Jody <jbruchon@nc.rr.com> 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!"
>
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