Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Modem PCI | Date | Mon, 26 Apr 1999 20:22:59 +0800 | From | David Luyer <> |
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> Take it up with Rockwell.
Either that, or start down the path to true evilness... work out how to interface a WinModem VXD from the kernel, using WINE code segments in the kernel if required and some kind of abstraction layer.
(I don't know if VXDs can call DLLs - if they can, then you need to be really sick and twisted to do this)
Advantage: might be successful some time in the next few centuries expandable to support other unsupported hardware in just a few decades VXD format is probably more documented than WinModems
Disadvantages: big, unstable, buggy kernel would result, running untrusted binary modules need to meet WinModem's scheduling constraints need to make ultra-mega-bzImage need to make emulate other VXDs which are used by VXD in question(?) idea has no signs of sanity nobody in their right mind would accept the patches
On the subject of undocumented proprietary hardware, Toshiba also use Lucent DSPs in their notebooks. Maybe Toshiba notebook owners could try and pressure them for the specs of the DSPs - but then, nobody's managed to get any success on the matter of Toshiba's FIR ports yet either :-(
David.
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