"Kevin P. Lawton" wrote:
>
> I'm not a Win32 maven myself, but I don't know of any reason
> FreeMWare won't be portable to Win9x. There are only a few
> services we need to get from the kernel, then we switch over
> to our own environment.
>
I guess I'll have to wait until you get your overview document done
before I get too far into this. I've done a little reading and at a
minimum I believe that a kernel-mode device driver is going to have to
be written for Win32. If Win95 is ignored, it appears that a WDM driver
will service both Win98 and Win2K. That would be nice (to share
drivers). Unfortunately, I have no experience in actually writting one
of these buggers, but if I had a good idea of what it has to do while in
ring 0, I *might* be able to figure it all out.
> Anybody else wan't to chime in here? As far as I know, it
> will be more a matter of if someone is willing to do a
> Win9x port. People have expressed interest so far in a WinNT
> port, *BSD, BeOS, Linux of course, OS/2, and some development
> kernels too. Oh, and someone mentioned Solaris/x86 as well.
>
> Note for now, we need more time on Linux-only, to make things
> a little simpler up front.
>
> You are appointed head person-in-charge of getting people interested
> in a Win9x port. :^)
>
> -Kevin
I will continue to keep my eyes on the development and spend some more
time reading up on WDM drivers for Win32. Who knows, maybe I'll be able
to figure it all out.
Craig
