Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 27 May 2004 22:28:38 +0200 | From | Adrian Bunk <> | Subject | Re: 2.6: future of UMSDOS? |
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On Mon, May 24, 2004 at 10:19:09AM -0700, Mark Beyer - Contractor wrote: > Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote: > > >On Wed, 2004-05-19 20:43:21 +0200, Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de> > >wrote in message <20040519184321.GB24287@fs.tum.de>: > > > > > >>Looking at the state of the UMSDOS code in 2.6 I'm currently wondering > >>about it's future. > >> > >>Are there still potential users and people willing to work on getting it > >>working, or should it be removed from kernel 2.6? > >> > >> > > > >In my early Linux days, UMSDOS was quite a neat thing to have for > >showing Linux to friends by placing a .zip'ed Linux installation on > >their MS-DOS machines. > > > >So for historic reasons, I think it would be nice to have UMSDOS around. > > > > > There are still embedded systems that boot from a DOS file system. Yes, > there are better methods but for backward compatibility I wouldn't like > to see it removed.
It's broken in 2.6.
Does anyone need it enough to fix it?
cu Adrian
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