Messages in this thread | | | From | (Alan Cox) | Subject | Re: NT/Linux Driver? | Date | Fri, 2 May 1997 20:56:40 +0100 (BST) |
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> The question I have is how many Windows NT kernel-level routies is a NT > device driver allowed to call? Because we would need to supply all of > the routine NT supplies to allow drivers to hook into interrupts, the > routines drivers use to access the virtual memory subsystem to do DMA, > etc.
Almost all of them, and some of the HAL ones are quite low level. I did look at this for NDIS 4.0 network drivers. Asynchronous bios services we can do with a bit of vm86 magic, some very dodgy interrupt controller emulation and the like but not alas I suspect NT drivers
Alan
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