[ros-dev] [Fwd: [ros-kernel] ReactOS status report for 10/12/1998]

[James Tabor]

Hi!
More voices from the past.
James


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Subject: [ros-kernel] ReactOS status report for 10/12/1998
Resent-Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1998 00:21:40 -0500
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Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1998 22:24:40 -0700
From: rex <rex at lvcablemodem.com>
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To: ros-kernel at sid-dis.com <ros-kernel at sid-dis.com>

    ReactOS status report for Monday, October 12th 1998

Current Kernel Release is 0.0.12

Working drivers:  Driver        Version
                   ------------  -------
                   FS/Minix      0.0.1
                   IDE           0.1.2
                   Keyboard      0.0.4
                   Null          0.0.1
                   Parallel      0.0.1
                   SDisk         0.0.1

Welcome to Brian and good luck to him as he settles
in and learns of the vast intracacies and subtleties
of the ReactOS kernel.

Benoit Papillault has taken on the task of the
PE program loader.

Francois Asselin sent me a response indicating he
doesnt currently have time to work on the
schedular due to his studies.  Perhaps he should
move to the inactive list.

An attempt to send mail to Iwan Fatahi's mail
account bounced.  Iwan, if you're there, perhaps
you can let me know if you're working on anything,
and let the webmaster know your current email
address.

I've been sending messages to various people on
the kernel members listing asking for status on
their piece of the system. If I do not get a
responce after three tries I'll assume that person
is busy for the time being, send the info to the
appropriate lead and remove their name from the
status report.  If anyone thinks that's not an
appropriate thing to do let me know.

Development Status:
   Boot Loader
     No Status.
   DOS Loader
     No Status.

   Kernel:  Brain Palmer
     I/O Manager:
       No Status.
     Memory Management
       No Status.
     Process Management:
       No Status.
     Security Manager
       No Status.
     Filesystem Interface
       No Status.
     Miniport Drivers
       No Status.
     Local Procedure Calls: Giovanni Tapang
       No Status.
     System Calls:
     Networking support:  Arindam Das and Jason Eager
       No Status.
     Plug and Play support
       No Status.
     PCI
       No Status.
     Registry
       No Status.
     ACPI power managment
       No Status.
     Loader for PE executables:  Benoit Papillault
       No status.
     Ports to other platforms
       No Status.

   Drivers:
     Floppy: Rex Jolliff
       No status.
     IDE:  Rex Jolliff
       Worked on bug reports:
         Driver crashes on detection of Secondary/Slave
           with ATAPI CDROM connected. (I believe I found
           the problem, but need an updated test system
           to be sure)
         Driver creates incorrect symbolic link for
           2nd drive.  (I'm not sure this bug exists, as
           I can't reproduce it.)
     Sound: Robert Bergkvist (FragDance Galore)
       No status.
     VFAT: Jason Filby
       First release currently in testing.
     Other Filesystems: Dennis Varouxis and Etienne Cochard
       No status.
     Console
       No status.
     Mouse: Jason Filby
       No status.
     Network
       No status.
     Serial
       No status.
     Video: Conor Stokes, Iwan Fatahi and Jerome Davadilla
       Mail sent to Iwan Fatahi requesting status bounced.

   System Libraries:
     Stub Generator
       No Status.
     KERNEL32
       No Status.
     Identification of remaining libraries
       No Status.

Milestones:
   Working:
     Kernel  R13  Brain Palmer  Est: 01/01/1999
       Boot loader improvements
       NASM new release compatability
       Buffered I/O bugfix

     VFAT R1  Jason Filby  Est: 01/01/1999

     IDE  R2  Rex Jolliff  Est: 10/31/1998
       Second release will fix the 255 sector read limitation
       and add timeout detection code.

   Complete:
     IDE  R1  Rex Jolliff  Est: 10/15/1998 Act: 09/20/1998
       First release will locate up to 8 drives, make available
       devices for the raw device and all dos compatable
       partitions and read and write using non DMA I/O.

     Kernel  R12  David Welch  Est: 09/31/1998  Act: 10/04/1998
       New:
         Multiple processes
         System calls (this is already working)
         Improved multithreading support
         Support for additional filesystem operations
         Some support for disk caching

   On Hold:
   Killed: