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Run Linux & Linux binaries on DOS (Announce)

posted by Oso2k, 11.10.2020, 10:53

> > OK, but maybe it's stripped of important components/modules/drivers to
> make
> > the image small...
>
> I've been rebuilding & rebuilding the doslinux kernel over and over today.
> ATA subsystem was turned off (makes sense since it's deprecated). Much of
> PATA and SATA subsystem was turned off too. Statically building the kernel
> now makes it way about 18MB (3x bigger), compressed. I haven't tried it on
> my HW yet but I'm trying to get to a point where a lot more network cards,
> video card framebuffers, and sound cards are built-in, plus some other
> niceties like NFS, EXT2/3/4, NTFS, parallel, serial, PS/2 and USB ports
> supported, SMP, PII.
Got a little further. You can find the progress here until I'm able to write it up. I've removed some of the drivers I originally added and `/dev` is nearly empty. Lots of devices need to be added to make it more usable.

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