HAL and Copy Protection

[Jesse Allen]

On 8/1/06, Jesse Allen <the3dfxdude at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 8/1/06, Martin Owens <doctormo at gmail.com> wrote:
> > the important part is not that HAL supports SecuRom (which it won't IMHO)
> > but if wine can use the direct access to the hardware in order to allow
> > securom to work through wine.
> >
> >
>
> Yes, that is correct. However I'm not sure if Wine interprets the HAL
> events correctly, or HAL overrides the important settings for correct
> hardware access. It's hard to know without having HAL on my system to
> look at.
>


To be clearer, I'm wondering about Wine's HAL code.