[ros-dev] very confused

[Brandon Turner]

Murphy, Ged (Bolton) wrote:

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>>On the following
>>http://www.reactos.org/pipermail/ros-dev/2006-February/007717.html
>>a developer says
>>"I am told that the sources for FreeLdr are all okay, except for the
>>some of the bootsectors having been pretty much just disassembled from
>>MS's. Is this true?"
>>The answer comes from an other developer
>>http://www.reactos.org/pipermail/ros-dev/2006-February/007722.html
>>"crashfourit has posted a patch here:"
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>>That means, that it is possible, that MS-bootsector-code have 
>>found the way 
>>in ROS, if I understood it right.
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>This code hasn't been audited yet. It's possible that parts of the
>bootsector have been derrived from an MS dissasembly. The audit will reveal
>the answer, and it will be rewritten if nessesary.
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>Regards,
>Ged.
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Brian in his commit message of freeloader said he used disassmebly.  
However, Jerry has written a new bootsector that will work and can be 
dropped into ROS at any time.

Brandon

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