On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 9:57 AM, Sir Gallantmon <ngomp...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 11:07 AM, Dan Kegel <d...@kegel.com> wrote: >> > What do you think about implementing wineserver kernel module or >> > handling only performance critical items in kernel? >> >> There has long been talk of doing that. Linus is >> even willing to take patches to implement win32 APIs >> in the linux kernel. >> But it turns out to not be what most people need. > > What do you mean by that? Wouldn't it be a good idea to be able to support > some parts of Wine in the kernel level to be more efficient?
Of course. It's just hard, and it isn't needed for the things we tend to use Wine for at the moment. Somebody actually had a shot at implementing this back in 2000, see http://lwn.net/2000/0914/a/lt-wine.php3 And that work lives on, it seems, as a part of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_Unified_Kernel So go try it out if you like (although I'm not sure how safe it is for production). I think the Wine team doesn't need to worry about that stuff; we have our hands full just making the win32 userland work well. - Dan
