[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 #23 from red-ray <ray at pobox.co.uk>  2009-09-25 18:10:50 ---
(In reply to comment #21)
> (In reply to comment #17)
> > (In reply to comment #15)
> > > you can add RDMSR emulation in Wine
> > 
> > Please will you clarify the sitwation on adding RDMSR emulation to Wine ?  For
> > this to be any better then my current work-a-round the emulation would need to
> > call mknod(), I doubt if you would accept such a patch, but I feel I would ask.
> If you want to write a patch that opens /dev/cpu/msr if it exists, it might be
> accepted. Anything that calls mknod() wouldn't, because that's a silly thing to
> do. We don't call mknod() when opening disk or serial devices either, just like
> we don't call mount() when accessing /proc. These are part of the standard
> system setup, based on sysadmin policies, user apps have no business messing
> with that.

You are rather good telling me what I should and should not be doing.  Why not
make a positive input, for a change, and tell me how I can read MSRs in some
other way ?  On Windows this is very easy, I load my kernel mode driver and it
reads MSRs for me, surely this must be posile on Wine/*nix with equal ease.

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