Subject: Re: windows drivers on netbsd?
To: Brian Buhrow <buhrow@lothlorien.nfbcal.org>
From: Perry E.Metzger <perry@piermont.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 11/07/2003 10:44:08
buhrow@lothlorien.nfbcal.org (Brian Buhrow) writes:
> 	The question is, how hard will it be to write a device driver
> environment that would actually work?  I imagine certain classes of drivers
> would need to be attacked first.  I.e. USB drivers and then network
> drivers, etc.  Unfortunately, network drivers are probably the easiest, but
> the least interesting because there are already a lot of native network
> drivers for many network cards under NetBSD.  More interesting, to me, at
> least, would be Windows drivers for exotic USB devices.

The good thing about the Windows driver interfaces is that, unlike
most of Windows, they are actually totally documented. They need to
be, because Microsoft relies on vendors to write them.

Perry