On Sun, 11 Feb 2007 08:58:53 -0500 (EST)
"J. Scott Kasten" <jscottkasten@yahoo.com> wrote:

> 
> Well, it may not be vaporware.

Depends on your definition of vaporware.  If "doing 90% of the
work and then refusing to release the code because he never quite
finishes any fucking project and is embarrased by his code" qualifies,
then yes, it is vaporware. This guy has a history of doing exactly
this, and it is extremely frustrating.  Also, he absolutely refuses to
provide the patch if you ask him directly.


> http://www.tal.org/~milang/o2/
> 
> Got to this site.  It's mostly O2 stuff, but if you look carefully in
> his screen shots, there are two that are supposedly of this FB
> console for extreme.  One shows text, another a floating boxes
> animation.

That is indeed onion's site.


> Go into his kernel directory, and you can download the IP22 kernel
> ready to run.

Yes, I have tested this kernel and it does indeed work.  Again though,
no code...


> I looked carefully through all his patches and links.  The extreme
> patch is not to be found.  I don't even see an email for this
> "milang" fellow. However, interestingly, some of the kernel config
> files are labled "onion".
> 
> If we get lucky, the right search terms in the world brain (google)
> might just yeild fruit.  I'll keep poking at it.

No, it won't.  If there isn't a patch on onion's site, then there isn't
a patch anywhere (unless by chance somebody else independently wrote a
patch and then never bothered to announce it to the linux-mips
community).

-Steve