On Mon, Mar 28, 2005 at 07:52:48PM +0900, Mike McCormack wrote: > > Damjan Jovanovic wrote: > > >I've been trying to add STI (still image) support to > >Wine, and I've made some progress. However, I see a > >deep and unsurmountable need to add (at least > >user-space) device drivers to Wine, and I would like > >some feedback on these ideas. > > Drivers belong in the kernel. If there's no Linux driver for a device, > then Wine cannot support it. In that case, the first step is to write a > Linux device driver for it, which has the added advantage that other > native linux applications can use the hardware. > > The interface from user space to kernel space should be done via > standard Linux mechanisms, such as ioctl. The Video4Linux API already > offers such an interface. > > You can't load a Windows driver that accesses hardware in Wine, as Wine > is a user-space application with no I/O privileges.
Actually for still imaging devices the Linux side uses libgphoto2, which is in userspace and uses libusb to access the kernel. I would really suggest to implement STI on top of libgphoto2 and try loading kernel drivers later. Ciao, Marcus
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