Imo, up to me, we ship with minimal drivers to get to 2nd stage, and then wipe everything with the WDK sample project.

Or we simply don't provide a bootable all-in-one CD. We make two separate downloads and somehow make an easy-to-use "slipstreamer" that builds the final CD. How to do this at conferences or with pressed CDs is another matter.

I agree all of these solutions are ugly, and as Nuno says, also not guaranteed to work (in the end, it's up to a judge or jury to decide).


Best regards,
Alex Ionescu


On Sun, Dec 1, 2013 at 4:08 PM, Colin Finck <colin@reactos.org> wrote:
Aleksey Bragin <aleksey@reactos.org> wrote:
> To conclude, our existing fastfast totally sucks. cdfs does too. Fixing
> them is a waste of time. Rewriting them - good project, but noone will
> use that driver.

So what is the alternative? Shipping ReactOS without any FAT driver? ;)
The license discussions have already evolved to a point where we know
that we can't possibly include the MS fastfat example code in our tree.

What has happened to the FullFAT-powered driver project in the meantime?
Some years ago, it was still praised in high terms and even ready to
implement journaling on top of FAT
(https://www.reactos.org/archives/public/ros-dev/2009-July/011902.html).


- Colin

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