Question about WINE and adding the "low-level" CD access APIs...

[Roderick Colenbrander]

If someone wants to implement the calls, likely the ReactOS guys are willing 
to help. If I'm right they are able to load some real Windows drivers 
nowadays.


On Monday 14 July 2003 14:57, Mike Hearn wrote:
> > Perhaps a better way is nowadays to find a way
> > to load the Windows .sys/.vxd driver. In the past this was about
> > impossible but now it might not be that hard anymore. To get this working
> > an x86 emulator is needed with ring0 support or whatever it is. Recently
> > a new x86 emulator called qemu popped up that is useable for this task I
> > think. It can both emulate Linux x86 binaries (binary loader) and even
> > simulate a Linux system. (it has a x86 emu library that can be used under
> > the LGPL too) If interested check here:
> > http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/
>
> You would need to write implementations for the internal kernel APIs,
> which are AFAIK non-existant in Wine. How many of us know how to write
> drivers for NT, let alone clone those APIs? Not many :(