From: Mark Beyer - Contractor <mbeyer@unminc.com>
To: Jan-Benedict Glaw <jbglaw@lug-owl.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6: future of UMSDOS?
Date: Mon, 24 May 2004 10:19:09 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <40B22E8D.6000901@unminc.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040524145150.GQ1912@lug-owl.de>
Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote:
>On Wed, 2004-05-19 20:43:21 +0200, Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de>
>wrote in message <20040519184321.GB24287@fs.tum.de>:
>
>
>>Looking at the state of the UMSDOS code in 2.6 I'm currently wondering
>>about it's future.
>>
>>Are there still potential users and people willing to work on getting it
>>working, or should it be removed from kernel 2.6?
>>
>>
>
>In my early Linux days, UMSDOS was quite a neat thing to have for
>showing Linux to friends by placing a .zip'ed Linux installation on
>their MS-DOS machines.
>
>So for historic reasons, I think it would be nice to have UMSDOS around.
>
>
There are still embedded systems that boot from a DOS file system. Yes,
there are better methods but for backward compatibility I wouldn't like
to see it removed.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-05-24 17:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-05-19 18:43 2.6: future of UMSDOS? Adrian Bunk
2004-05-24 14:51 ` Jan-Benedict Glaw
2004-05-24 17:19 ` Mark Beyer - Contractor [this message]
2004-05-27 20:28 ` Adrian Bunk
2004-05-28 9:03 ` aeriksson
2004-05-28 9:19 ` Jan-Benedict Glaw
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