[Bug 20098] Wine fails to run my Kernel Mode Driver in Kernel Mode

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Thu Sep 24 18:45:14 CDT 2009


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


Juan Lang <juan_lang at yahoo.com> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|UNCONFIRMED                 |RESOLVED
         Resolution|                            |WONTFIX




--- Comment #8 from Juan Lang <juan_lang at yahoo.com>  2009-09-24 18:45:12 ---
Unfortunately, most kernel-mode drivers can't be supported by Wine, are truly
beyond its scope.  So this argument doesn't convince me:

"Applications running a Kernel Mode driver is a standard windows function used
by many windows application so should work with Wine."

Wine has no special privilege under Linux:  it isn't kernel mode itself.  In
general, if you want to do something that requires kernel mode, you must write
a device driver for the operating system you're running on.  Wine has made some
attempts to support some Windows drivers, but only because some of them don't
actually require kernel mode.  Those that do, Wine simply cannot support.

Windows is no different in this regard.  See e.g.
http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2009/09/24/9898728.aspx

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