Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2004 20:51:17 -0800 (PST) From: wpaul@FreeBSD.ORG (Bill Paul) To: dev@unixdaemon.org (Dev Tugnait) Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Project Evil: The Evil Continues Message-ID: <20040125045117.BA32B16A4CF@hub.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20040125035858.GB82300@daemon.unixdaemon.org> from Dev Tugnait at "Jan 24, 2004 10:58:58 pm"
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> What in the world is Project Evil?
Project Evil (aka the NDISulator) is a special binary compatibility
layer for the FreeBSD kernel that lets you use Windows NDIS drivers
for network adapters with FreeBSD/ia32.
What does Project Evil do:
- Provides a small Windows PE file relocator/dynamic linker
to allow Windows .sys files to be interfaced with the native
code.
- Provides a utility to parse Windows .inf files to extract
device identification data and registry keys.
- Emulates large chunks of NDIS.SYS, HAL.dll and ntoskrnl.exe
with native FreeBSD kernel routines.
- Interfaces the NDIS packet/buffer model with the BSD ifnet/mbuf
model, making an NDIS driver look like an ifnet interface to
the FreeBSD kernel.
- Supports PCI and cardbus devices (and PCMCIA too, eventually).
What doesn't Project Evil do:
- Provide support for USB network devices (this would require
emulating portions of USBD.SYS and portitions of the Windows
I/O model outside of the NDIS API).
- Support Winows modem drivers (this would mean duplicating
big parts of ntoskrnl.exe).
-Bill
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