Subject: Re: ndis & kernel
To: Juan RP <juan@xtrarom.org>
From: Steven M. Bellovin <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
List: current-users
Date: 05/30/2007 13:25:14
On Wed, 30 May 2007 19:22:18 +0200
Juan RP <juan@xtrarom.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 30 May 2007 13:17:14 -0400
> "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@cs.columbia.edu> wrote:
>
> > It would be great spot if the Windows piece could be an LKM.
>
> We'd still need to embed the object file (built with ndiscvt(8) from
> the .INF and .SYS windows files) into the LKM, and these files are
> driver specific.
Right -- convert the Windows .inf/.sys files via ndiscvt into an LKM.
>
> I don't know how FreeBSD does it, but I'm not sure how easy it is.
>
It doesn't sound easy, but this is a wonderful place to do it.
--Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb