On Jan 7, 2009, at 7:24 PM, WaxDragon wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 9:18 AM, Aleksey Bragin
> <
aleksey@reactos.org> wrote:
>> Hello,
>> I recently spent some time experimenting with various Cc rewrites we
>> have in our tree, and before that I extensively tested our fastfat
>> driver in a real NT environment (MS Windows 2003).
>>
>> The conclusion of the above work is that our fastfat driver either
>> needs serious bugfixing, or a rewrite is needed. It corrupts
>> directory tables in a real NT, leads to unusual behaviour of cc-
>> rewrite branch, and may have side effects on arty's newcc.
>>
>> Before this is done (bugfixing or rewriting, developing and testing
>> against a Windows 2003 at least, not ReactOS), it's meaningless to
>> continue any other work on Cc and related Mm parts.
>>
>>
>> WBR,
>> Aleksey Bragin.
>
> Let's make a plan! I want a proper branch for the cc rewrites. I'd
> like to have a live branch, not this half branch, half patch form that
> cc_rewrite is in now. Perhaps this would be a good place for the
> working fastfat to be dropped when finished.
>
> I have time and resources that I could put towards this goal. Let's
> get fastfat working on 2k3, then drop it into a new cc branch and get
> it working..
>
> <Leroy Jenkins>LET'S DO THIS, CHUMS!</Leroy Jenkins>
>
> WD
Live branch needs constant merging. Have a look at amd64 bringup