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RE: [ros-dev] New release
by Derek Hinchliffe 25 Jun '05

25 Jun '05

jakov(a)vmlinux.org wrote: > > > Why not release every other month... it's not nonsensical. > It's agile. > > If no big changes: 0.2.6.1 > > If big bugfixes: 0.2.7 > > If important features: 0.3 > I think this is a very good idea. Who am I? Well I guess I'm what you could call a typical reactos 'user' in that I occaisionally download the latest releases to see how things are progressing. Personally, I know that there is progress being made but only because I follow this list, but I'm sure there are plenty of others who don't and just check the site for a new release every now and then (or subscribe to the freshmeat release notices etc). Now, I agree with other comments that if a new release (either 0.3 or 0.2.7) comes out and there are no immediately visible improvements to the user then it could cause trust issues. And on the other hand if there aren't any releases for a while then it looks from the outside like the project is stagnating. Which is why I think the above idea is a good one - if I've downloaded 0.2.6 in the past and a 0.2.6.1 comes out 2 months later, then I know not to expect too many noticable changes, but it indicates to me that there is at least progress behind the scenes. And when the 0.2.7 comes out I should expect some new features around but nothing breathtakingly new. And when 0.3 came out I'd be hitting the download ASAP to see what major new developments are now afoot. So I think with the regular interval releases, but making sure they are marked to indicate what sort of release they are, means everyone knows where they stand. Cheers Derek

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[Crash] Hovering over Administration in start menu
by Jan Schiefer 25 Jun '05

25 Jun '05

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 When I hover over the start menu item "Administration" ROS crashes and goes to the "You can switch of the computer now" screen. The debugger isn't started. How to get more information here? I'm using current SVN in qemu 0.7.0. Greetings, Jan Schiefer! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFCu+pUzC00UKXFdVcRAlh/AJ9Ps7yJIvjjV1/oDkN2HkI/Q38zcQCcC3nQ J80ijeO5Yinqs2TaUlt2Zmc= =qFD6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Re: [ros-dev] NDIS development
by Andrei Homescu 24 Jun '05

24 Jun '05

On 6/24/05, art yerkes <ayerkes(a)perpetual.com> wrote: > If the structure appears in the DDK headers, you should consider it to > be in use by drivers, even if it's accompanied by a note saying that > the structure is internal and will change. Driver writers tend to > ignore such warnings. You have a point, but I checked their DDK and it's not described there (it's an alias for PVOID in their DDK). Its members appear only in our DDK. I've been snooping a little through their ndis.sys and it seems that their structure has some extra members, like pointers to lists of used packets and stuff like that. I guess it's safe then to add a few variables to help in the implementation. I also saw another interesting thing: the MS ndis.sys doesn't have all the functions listed in the DDK. A few of them are declared as exports but not implemented. Best regards, Andrei Homescu

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NDIS development
by Andrei Homescu 24 Jun '05

24 Jun '05

Hello! I've been studying the sources for ndis.sys for a while and I started writing some functions, until now simple ones (wrappers for kernel calls). I would like to implement NdisAllocatePacketPoolEx and NdisPacketPoolUsage, but I don't think I can without modifying NDIS_PACKET_POOL in w32api/include/ddk/ndis.h. Is that data structure internal to ndis.sys or is publicly documented (and thus I can't touch it)? I would like to add a couple of new members to count the overflow packets and the used packets. I've also been reading "Undocumented Windows NT" and I have a few questions regarding some legal issues. Are the function declarations for documented functions copied&pasted from the DDK? The undocumented function declarations are obtained by disassembly of Windows sources? Doesn't snooping around kernel code violate any copyright law? Best regards, Andrei Homescu

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RE: [ros-dev] [Crash] Hovering over Administration in start menu
by Murphy, Ged (Bolton) 24 Jun '05

24 Jun '05

Jan Schiefer wrote: > When I hover over the start menu item "Administration" ROS > crashes and goes to the "You can switch of the computer now" > screen. The debugger isn't started. > > How to get more information here? > > I'm using current SVN in qemu 0.7.0. > You really need to be using ROS in DBG mode to gather more information. Ged. ************************************************************************ The information contained in this message or any of its attachments is confidential and is intended for the exclusive use of the addressee. The information may also be legally privileged. The views expressed may not be company policy, but the personal views of the originator. If you are not the addressee, any disclosure, reproduction, distribution or other dissemination or use of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please contact postmaster(a)exideuk.co.uk <mailto:postmaster@exideuk.co.uk> and then delete this message. Exide Technologies is an industrial and transportation battery producer and recycler with operations in 89 countries. Further information can be found at www.exide.com

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RE: [ros-dev] New Release - how're you feeling?
by Murphy, Ged (Bolton) 24 Jun '05

24 Jun '05

Craig Talbert wrote: > On 6/22/05, Murphy, Ged (Bolton) <MurphyG(a)cmpbatteries.co.uk> wrote: > > > We need regular releases to keep public interest. New releases > > generate interest outside of the community, which can only > be a good > > thing, even if they don't contain radical new features. > > I would be very careful about mixing concern for generating > more interest in to a release policy that might give a false > impression of the progress being made on the project. > > It does give me a warm fuzzy feeling to see the version > number go up on reactos.com -- on (almost) any f/oss project > for that matter. But I if I discovered the progress being > made was misrperesented, I might lose trust in the people > working on the project. Trust is important, and if we can > gain the trust of end users, that's something we'll have that > microsoft never really earned. :) This is a good point. However we're only talking about a minor release. Minor releases generally only consist of bug fixes and small improvements / functionality. 0.2.6 was a particularly bad release, and at the moment, (not counting the header rewrites currently taking place) HEAD is much more stable and usable. 0.3 is meant to be the big bang release where users are blown away, not minor releases. To take Alex's earlier comparison, the Linux kernel often jumps minor releases (2.6.*) with no obvious improvements. You generally have to read the changelog to see what has changed (and if it's worth you upgrading) Again, my point is; if we're not going to do anymore 0.2.* releases, then we could be in for a long wait before networking is at a stage which meets the 0.3 criteria. Ged. ************************************************************************ The information contained in this message or any of its attachments is confidential and is intended for the exclusive use of the addressee. The information may also be legally privileged. The views expressed may not be company policy, but the personal views of the originator. If you are not the addressee, any disclosure, reproduction, distribution or other dissemination or use of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please contact postmaster(a)exideuk.co.uk <mailto:postmaster@exideuk.co.uk> and then delete this message. Exide Technologies is an industrial and transportation battery producer and recycler with operations in 89 countries. Further information can be found at www.exide.com

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New Site Design
by Rick Langschultz 23 Jun '05

23 Jun '05

I was wondering if you all would be interested in doing something like a portal system. I know that a content management system is important, and that will be a feature also, but I think a portal system for users, developers, and administrators can become quite a useful feature. I think another factor in getting ReactOS into mainstream computer useage would be a single-sign-on service much like microsoft's passport service or apple's .mac service, which may or may not be sso based I am not really sure. There should also me an MSDN like library for programmers that are currently unaware of programming protocol. There should also me a software compatibility library. Just a few suggestions 1 - Utilize a portal system 2 - Supply users and developers with a application/driver compatibility library 3 - Supply users, and developers with an online application for programming help/collaboration. 4 - Utilize a content management system over the portal system to allow the portal be updateable. Those are a few of my suggestions. On another note I think ReactOS should not wait to do a "networking" release and should provide 0.2.7 or 0.2.6.1 etc. The networking support is an important feature but stability is a major factor in releasing software. If networking is unstable the version should be 0.2.6.1 for each major bugzilla fix. Even if that means 0.2.6.99999.

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cdron.sys freezes the system
by Jan Schiefer 23 Jun '05

23 Jun '05

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 cdrom.sys ( current SVN ) freezes the system when starting the installer and when booting the live cd. No bluescreen is displayed. Is there a way to aquire debug information in such a case ( from installer or when booting the live cd ). Greetings, Jan Schiefer! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFCt9rrzC00UKXFdVcRApo3AJwMJmYjf+Fiu23eeAQR7M707Q1KeACgk5TV yvUHCavl4WtzMEs4Mhrufeo= =SfSY -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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KMODE_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED
by Rafal Kupiec 23 Jun '05

23 Jun '05

KMODE_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED STOP: 0x0000001E (0xc0000005, 0x9d805fe5, 0x00000000, 0x9e9e0000) win32k.sys - Address 0x9d805fe5 base at 0x9d7fb000, DateStamp 0x0 Page fault Exception: 14(2) I had this Blue Screen of Dead when i tried to resize Task Manager window.

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Current build problem with ntoskrnl/io/disk.c
by Mike Lerwill 23 Jun '05

23 Jun '05

Hi, Following the most recent changes the build fails at present with the following ntoskrnl\io\disk.c:1614: error: conflicting types for 'IoReadPartitionTable' w32api/include/ddk/win2k.h:67: error: previous declaration of 'IoReadPartitionTable' was here ntoskrnl\io\disk.c:1614: error: conflicting types for 'IoReadPartitionTable' w32api/include/ddk/win2k.h:67: error: previous declaration of 'IoReadPartitionTable' was here ntoskrnl\io\disk.c:1641: error: conflicting types for 'IoWritePartitionTable' w32api/include/ddk/win2k.h:86: error: previous declaration of 'IoWritePartitionTable' was here ntoskrnl\io\disk.c:1641: error: conflicting types for 'IoWritePartitionTable' w32api/include/ddk/win2k.h:86: error: previous declaration of 'IoWritePartitionTable' was here regards Mike Lerwill

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