From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Sep 30 08:48:15 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA21596 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Wed, 30 Sep 1998 08:48:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.aussie.org (hallam.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.54.166]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA21584 for ; Wed, 30 Sep 1998 08:48:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mlnn4@oaks.com.au) Received: from bigbox (frankenputer.aussie.org [203.29.75.73]) by mail.aussie.org (8.9.0/8.9.0) with SMTP id BAA25615 for ; Thu, 1 Oct 1998 01:47:38 +1000 (EST) Message-Id: <199809301547.BAA25615@mail.aussie.org> From: "Hallam Oaks P/L list account" To: "FreeBSD Chat Mailing List" Date: Thu, 01 Oct 1998 01:48:37 +1000 Reply-To: "Hallam Oaks P/L list account" X-Mailer: PMMail 98 Standard (2.01.1600) For Windows NT (4.0.1381;3) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Win95/NT drivers on FreeBSD? Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org >supported WinNT (and some Win98) device drivers, as shipped by the OEM. >Why WinNT and not Win95? Because WinNT drivers are more like Unix device >drivers. They have well defined interfaces to the O/S, and are _not_ Having written NT device drivers myself I can totally agree with this. The NT kernel-level interface is very nice and quite clean. (i.e. they actually designed more or less all of it before they started coding, which is almost certainly not the case with Windows. [At least, if it is the case with Windows, then I'd suspect they were smoking something other than tobacco at the time]). It would be within the realms of possibility to write support code that made an NT driver think it was running under an NT kernel within FreeBSD. (Remember, folks, the NT kernel is not the same as the Win32 API - it sits above the kernel and doesn't have to be emulated for a device driver to work, so many of the issues the WINE folk have to deal with aren't here). -- Chris To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message