[Wine] Windows Kernel & Executive implementation

Volodymyr Shcherbyna v_scherbina at mvps.org
Fri Feb 22 09:41:08 CST 2008


Hello Tres,

Yes, agree, there might be Linux equivalents to accomplish the same tasks.
But let me pickup the description of winehq from official web-site : "[...]
a compatibility layer for running Windows programs [...]". Doesn't that
mean, that *all* software should work?

-- 
with best regards,
Volodymyr

2008/2/22, A. Tres Finocchiaro <tres.finocchiaro at gmail.com>:
>
> Probably the most common response you will get is, there are often freely
> available tools that can already do this in Linux.
>
> I'm interested to see more responses.
>
> -Tres
>
>
> On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 6:02 AM, Volodymyr Shcherbyna <
> v_scherbina at mvps.org> wrote:
>
> > Hello everyone, my name is Volodymyr, I am driver developer mostly doing
> > stuff for Windows.
> >
> > I discovered that WineHQ project does not have support for drivers (am I
> > wrong?). In other words, quite a big amount of applications will fail to
> > function properly, because many of them are using helper device drivers
> > to
> > get some extended functionality. I can just mention RegMon, FileMon,
> > TDIMom,
> > and others.
> >
> > Theoretically, this task is possible to be implemented, but it requires
> > quite a lot amount of work, of course. Is there any movements to
> > overcome
> > this limitation? Have you ever considered to achieve compatibility at
> > this
> > level?
> >
> > Basically, I am talking about implementation of analogs of Windows
> > Kernel
> > and Executive subsystems. On top of them, there might be implemented
> > such
> > popular subsystems as:
> >
> > - TDI subsystem (up to Vista)
> > - WFP (starting from Vista)
> > - Support for FS filters
> > - and the rest
> >
> > Any comments are highly appreciated,
> >
> > --
> > with best regards,
> > Volodymyr
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> - Tres.Finocchiaro at gmail.com




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Volodymyr
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