Wine device drivers proposal

[Damjan Jovanovic]

--- Vitaliy Margolen <wine-devel at kievinfo.com> wrote:

> 
> Saturday, August 27, 2005, 6:24:21 AM, Evgeny F
> wrote:
> > In message Mon, 28 Mar 2005 02:30:28 -0800, Damjan
> Jovanovic wrote:
> >> I propose adding a driver loading system to Wine
> that
> >> works as follows:
> >> -CreateFile() gets a device filename, like (in my
> >> case) \\.\MiiScan0
> >> -Currently, Wine's behaviour for such a filename
> is to
> >> try load a VXD.
> >> -In the case of VXD loading failure, a search is
> >> performed in (Wine's) C:\Windows\System32\Drivers
> (or
> >> somewhere else?) for a matching driver.
> >> 
> >> The driver is then loaded and used for (at
> least):
> >> ReadFile()
> >> WriteFile()
> >> DeviceIoControl()
> >> CloseHandle()
> > I am doing now a dll which should load scanner
> microdriver and 
> > implement all the surrounding API's. Can anybody
> tell, what naming
> > convention Windows uses for USB devices
> ("\\.\????")?
> [skip]
> 
> It looks like there are multiple projects going on
> along the same lines here.
> Ivan Leo and me working on this too (making safedisc
> protected games work on
> wine).
> 
> So far we have functional DeviceIoCotrol on a
> device. But no support for read or
> write nor synchronization of any kind. Right now it
> blocks until processing is
> complete.

How exactly did you change DeviceIoControl()?

> I would suggest to cooperate in this development
> effort. There are number of
> issues to resolve, that a not so trivial. Also there
> are limits to how far wine
> can go in emulating native kernel. Some things are
> gust impossible to implement
> in the same manner.
> 
> Please join #winehackers channel on freenode.net to
> discuss the the subject.
> 
> Vitaliy.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 


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