Re: [Freedos-devel] FDISK does not respect DLASortByDriveNo config of the kernel

2024-01-04 Thread Bret Johnson via Freedos-devel
The thing I would do to speak against it is that because none of the other DOS versions, including older versions of FreeDOS, will be able to use it. I do know different versions of DOS do the ordering of the drive letters differently. I think the best thing to do is try to automate it as much

Re: [Freedos-devel] FDISK does not respect DLASortByDriveNo config of the kernel

2024-01-04 Thread Andrew Bird via Freedos-devel
On Thu, 4 Jan 2024 00:57:18 +0100 Bernd Böckmann via Freedos-devel wrote: > Hi, > > while hunting a FDISK  bug reported to me on Github regarding the order > of the drive letters FDISK assigns, I noted that the FreeDOS Kernel > actually supports different drive sorting algorithms via its > DL

Re: [Freedos-devel] FDISK does not respect DLASortByDriveNo config of the kernel

2024-01-04 Thread Bernd Böckmann via Freedos-devel
Hi Eric, > I would assume the kernel parameter is neither meant to be queried > at runtime nor is it used by a significant number of people at all. > There is no external API, but you may pull it from RAM, possibly. I would only read kernel RAM directly if the kernel tells me the address, for ex