Re: 2.6: future of UMSDOS?

[Mark Beyer - Contractor]

Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote:

> On Wed, 2004-05-19 20:43:21 +0200, Adrian Bunk <bunk@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote in message <20040519184321.GB24287@xxxxxxxxx>:
>  
>
> > 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.


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