Wine Kernel Handle Support Module

[Marcus Meissner]

On Wed, Aug 08, 2007 at 02:09:46AM -0400, James Keane wrote:
> I have been working on something that might be useful for kernel
> integration.  It is a way for wine to create its own interrupt, so
> that a wine server/kernel/handle/whatever function could be called
> from userspace with a simple INT 0xwhatever.  Just as linux uses int
> 0x80.
> 
> The only problem I could see with this technique is that it directly
> modifies the IDT, which only exists on i386/amd64 architectures, so
> that means we would have to find something else.
> 
> I am not sure if this is the direction that some people want to take,
> because I am sure this modification of the IDT would be considered
> improper by kernel types but come on, I mean i386 has something like
> 200 software interrupts and linux uses only one.
> 
> As it stands now, I have code that works perfectly with amd64
> processors and just need to implement the actual wine system calls for
> handles or whatever it is.  i386 support is a stones throw away, I
> just need to setup a virtual machine.
> 
> I know there is some discussion of what should be put in the kernel
> module, so I am asking for advice on what to implement... ie. just
> handles, everything wineserver does, etc.

The first question is:
	Why do you want to do that and what specifically do
	you want to achieve?

Ciao, Marcus