13 Dec
2017
13 Dec
'17
10:05 p.m.
Hi,
I think that at least merging most of the versions shouldn't be a big
problem. We could go Win8's way. Is there a rough estimation, how much is
the distribution of common code, code for new HW only and code für old HW
only?
To be honest, I don't think that much space will be wasted in the
installation or during runtime if we merge all (generic) hals to one.
If I understand it correctly, even on modern HW we need most of the "old"
ways for initialization. The biggest waste should be the ACPI
infrastructure on very(!) old HW. And this is how many KB on RAM? 200KB?
Btw, ACPI went into the mass market ca. 1998. On these days, 32 MB RAM
were normal. ReactOS wouldn't even boot on these machines.
Best regards,
Michael Fritscher