[Wine] How about this replacement of WINE.

David Baron d_baron at 012.net.il
Thu Feb 28 11:53:08 CST 2008


> > However, it's a great, great project IMO. It was about time something
> > like that should've been made. Redirecting calls is simply acting as a
> > proxy, instead of emulating.
>
> Wine is not an emulator.  No emulation is going on anyway.
>
> We would, I think, like to move wineserver into the kernel
> sometime.  It's been discussed before.  Linus is not
> opposed to having native support for win32 system calls.
> A fellow at Redhat wrote a kernel module for wine a number
> of years ago, but it just wasn't time yet.
>
> For a related BSD thingy, see
> http://www.kernel-traffic.org/wine/wn20010313_87.html#1
> That project was still going as of 2006, I think, but didn't
> get terribly far.

OK. Has anyone actually tried this thing?

Patching kernels and building modules is no big thing but patching and 
compiling wine, being tied to an older version or constantly upgrading and 
redoing this might be a bit too much.





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