Hello all,
Edijus from #reactos has just tried ReactOS on his system, but the boot
process got stuck at "usbdriver.sys". When reading his notice, I was
wondering why we still include this ancient driver in every ReactOS build.
As far as I know ...
* it has never worked for us
* it is incomplete and not well-tested
* it has obvious code bugs (e.g. just look in ehci.c:3465 how it
enumerates more PCI devices and functions than possible,
consequently enumerating the first function twice due to bitshifts)
* better USB work by Johannes and Michael is progressing well
Although it might be useful as a testcase for the legacy HAL functions
(like HalAssignSlotResources), it should still be removed from the build
process for now.
If there are no objections, I'll do this change on the weekend.
- Colin
Hi,
While taking a short break from my GSOC work, I like to do some work on
freeldr.
Final goal is to make it work with MSVC, but first I'd like to do a
little cleanup, since its a bit messy.
First I'd like to know how the state of the old bootcode is and if we
still need it and whats left to do to get rid of it.
Then I'd suggest to remove the code that draws purple unicorns like it
was done for ARM (afaik, we don't use it anyway)
I'd also like to fix formatting (tabs -> spaces)
Any remarks, objections, wishes, doubts?
Regards,
Timo
Thanks for being that efficient for reverting.
Less than two days after message on ML. Congratz.
Next time I take days off, I won't take four days any longer, in case you would question some other of my patches.
I'll also send you my next patches, that way you'll be able to commit them, or just to skip them to prevent any revert.
Hi all,
I write this mail with great sadness, but I've recently been informed
that Ge Van Geldorp, one of the original and important contributers to
the ReactOS project has recently passed away.
Having met up with him personally, I can say with some confidence that
he was not only blessed with an impressive skill in the hobby /
industry we all love, but was also a man of great integrity.
Being one of my original mentors in reactos, and having spent time
busting our guts at various linux projects with him trying to convince
the unix fanatics of the merits of NT, I can assure you that this he
was both a great colleague and friend. I'm sure all the old school
reactos devs would more than agree.
I propose we have some sort of eulogy on our homepage. I'd be more
than willing to compose something.
If people would like to send their thoughts, wishes or memories, I'd
be more than happy to compile them.
Ged.
Hiya
Managed to find Greg brother's letter to Wine, with bit more details regarding this tragedy. Since GvG was also our man, not only Wine's, perhaps some collaborative effort could be set to commemorate him.
With best regards
Caemyr
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Date:
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To: RE: Ge van Geldorp
Thu, 9 Jun 2011 23:05:46 +0200
Erven Gé van Geldorp <erven.van.geldorp <at> gmail.com>
'Paul Vriens' <paul.vriens.wine <at> gmail.com>
Hi all,
My name is Arno van Geldorp. I’m the brother of Gé (Greg) van Geldorp. I’m very sorry that I have to inform you that Greg has passed away almost 3 weeks ago. 2 Months earlier he was diagnosed with cancer in a very aggressive form.
I know he made his contribution to the Wine project. And that one of them is the WineTestBot. His passing away went so fast that he didn’t have the time to inform me all about it. What he did ask me is to make sure that the server where the WineTestBot is running on will be hosted for at least 2 more years. So we will take care of that. But I don’t know if anyone took over the administration off the server.
If anyone took over the administration from Greg could you please contact me at erven.van.geldorp at gmail.com
Kind regards,
Arno van Geldorp