[Bug 20098] Wine should, when possible, provide the kernel mode environment for kernel mode drivers

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http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20098





--- Comment #24 from red-ray <ray at pobox.co.uk>  2009-09-25 18:13:40 ---
(In reply to comment #18)
> (In reply to comment #12)
> > Windows is different.  On windows, with appropiate access rights, I can run my
> > kernel driver in kernel mode and read the MSRs.
> Well, of course you can load a kernel driver in kernel mode in Windows.  My
> point isn't that reading an MSR is security sensitive, but that loading any
> code in kernel mode is.  Wine isn't any more privileged than any other *nix
> program, and can't do it for you.  Loading a kernel driver in kernel mode is
> simply impossible for Wine to accomplish.  Only the kernel can.
> Emulating reading an MSR is a workaround to loading your driver in kernel mode. 
> I hope you can find one that works for you, but loading a kernel driver in
> kernel mode isn't it.

I feel this simply shows you have now looked at how the request has progessed.

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