[Freedos-user] The List

[<je...@sh...>]

Hi All,

Today, another milestone in “The List” project was reached. 

For those who were not yet aware, for quite a while I have been asked to take up the task of making improvements to RBIL which received its last release in July of 2000. Ralf did a wonderful job maintaining his Interrupt List. But, there is still a lot of additional data and improvements to be made. You can even see pages of general topics that where in “Pending” status for that final Release 61.  I think it is safe to assume that since it has been over 2.5 decades, it is time for “The List” Project.

The first milestone for “The List” was to break-down RBIL entries into separate files. While editing those large text files was fine for a single person, updates to The List is going to be community driven using git. Trying to manage multiple contributions to those big files would be a nightmare. The first task was to break it all down into something much easier to manage and administer through a VCS without having to constantly fight merge conflicts. That milestone was reached a little while back.

The milestone reached today was the completion of the utility that can glue all that stuff into a set of Release files very similar to the original RBIL. 

There are a couple things from the original files I would like to clean up before we issue our first release of “The List”. That include some minor things like a couple different data tables having the same ID. But, a first release “could” be done right now. I just want to do a little of those Quality-Control adjustments to the text.

There is still a lot of stuff out there that can be added to The List. Your help and contributions are welcome. 

While I personally have only made a couple minor corrections and additions, others have submitted updates as well and much more than I have. 

So, stay tuned for our first Release. 

And please head on over to https://github.com/LoopZ/TheList <https://github.com/LoopZ/TheList> if you would like to contribute that stockpile of additions you may have been hoarding. 

:-)

Jerome