Need ideas about ntoskrnl

Marcus Meissner meissner at suse.de
Tue Sep 6 06:56:46 CDT 2005


On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 01:46:21PM +0200, Andreas Mohr wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 11:32:05AM +0100, Ivan Leo Puoti wrote:
> > Peter Beutner wrote:
> > 
> > >Any reasons given?
> > 
> > Yes, he doesn't want driver in the wineserver.
> 
> Well, that reasoning cannot remain without further discussion if there
> truly is a need for such a feature.
> 
> Either having a technically superiour isolated ntoskrnl framework
> is sufficiently easy and feasible and compatible, or an alternative
> could perhaps be to add this functionality to wineserver yet disable
> critical parts of it by default in order to not compromise stability.

This ntoskrnl is meant to load binary windows drivers. It will never
live in the wineserver due to this reason ;)

Ciao, Marcus



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