Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 24 May 2004 10:19:09 -0700 | From | Mark Beyer - Contractor <> | Subject | Re: 2.6: future of UMSDOS? |
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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.
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