Re: [RFC] Taking over dev86

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No, sorry, Seabios does not depend on dev86.
That is actually vgabios, also used by QEMU.

MFLD


2017-02-24 22:59 GMT+01:00 Marc-François LUCCA-DANIAU <mfld.fr@xxxxxxxxx>:
> Has lkundrak also stopped to respond to direct mail ?
>
> Today his repository looks the one that is referenced as the master in
> some distributions, at least in their respective build systems. So
> this takeover should be advertised to their respective maintainers
> through their ticket systems.
>
> It also seems to me that some projects still use dev86 in addition to
> ELKS, like the coreboot / Seabios, so indirectly some important others
> like QEMU... therefore I would not takeover without discuting a bit
> with that teams.
>
> MFLD
>
>
> 2017-02-24 22:36 GMT+01:00 Jody Bruchon <jody@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>> From my perspective, it appears that lkundrak on Github has abandoned dev86;
>> there hasn't been a commit or a code pull request accepted to that repo in
>> nearly two years and lkundrak is not participating in any issue reports or
>> pull request discussions either. I am considering converting my Github fork
>> of dev86 into a normal repository and considering my repository to be the
>> official one for the dev86 project.
>>
>> Does anyone see any reason that I shouldn't perform this "hostile takeover"
>> of dev86? I'd like to hear everyone's thoughts.
>>
>> -Jody
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