and there have been continous ports since then: https://github.com/Godzil/ftape/... | Hacker News

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		fock 5 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Using Claude Code to modernize a 25-year-old kerne... and there have been continous ports since then: https://github.com/Godzil/ftape/tree/master - note the caveats which apparently all disappeared here...

kelnos 5 months ago | [–]

Looks like that hasn't been updated in 6 years, and only supports the 2.6.x kernel.

I doubt it would have been significantly easier to start the porting effort from that vs. the original 2.4.x source.

fock 5 months ago | [–]

and of course this didn't take into account you posted that, because I got directed straight here by AI!

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