9 Nov
2009
9 Nov
'09
9:51 a.m.
That's great! This gives me more motivation to finish the fastfat
rewrite and test your branch with that driver.
On Nov 9, 2009, at 12:21 PM, <ayerkes(a)speakeasy.net>
<ayerkes(a)speakeasy.net> wrote:
I'm pleased to announce that I've been able to
boot reactos to the
shell from an ext2 partition. This is something we've wanted for a
long time and many of us have worked on. I've synced up arty-newcc
to the current state of my git repository. This work is
experimental, not quite complete, and has some important limitations:
- It probably won't currently work for a partition larger than 4gig
and might even fail for one larger than 2gig. This limitation is
lifted by other, unrelated code in my tree that I haven't merged yet.
- It probably has a lot more bugs left, especially in block
allocation for large files.
- Some parts of the new section implementation leak pages.
I was planning to, but haven't yet made the new and old cache and
cc and section implementations available side by side. The main
work of separating the new files involved in the section
implementation (now in ntoskrnl/mm/section/*) is done. This will be
necessary when I merge it into the main tree, at least for
regression testing.
Despite the branch being named for me, I invite anyone to work on,
modify, or bugfix arty-newcc. This advance has been a long time
coming, and I'd like to thank everyone for keeping the faith.