In http://www.winehq.com/pipermail/wine-devel/2006-June/048583.html I read that the patch is Diffed against 1d40bf0141b7f67b1188555962698f5dab631bc3 What does it mean? How can I get my cvs directory to that state?
Thanks Mario On gio, 2006-06-15 at 20:48 -0600, Vitaliy Margolen wrote: > Thursday, June 15, 2006, 10:01:03 AM, Brian Vincent wrote: > > On 6/15/06, Mario Demontis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Any news about ntoskrnl.exe support? > >> As far as I can understand it's not yet integrated... > >> Are there any new patches? > > > Read here first: > > http://www.winehq.com/pipermail/wine-devel/2006-April/047262.html > > > Read here next: > > http://www.winehq.com/pipermail/wine-devel/2006-June/048583.html > > > Vitaliy Margolen seems to be working on it a bit. > > > Vitaliy - in your email above you wrote, "Here is last instalment". > > Did you mean, "Here is _the latest_ installment."? I was going to > > include that post in this week's WWN and just wanted to make it > > correct. > > Yes sorry. It was last at the time I sent it. Now I have one more (with > suggested fixes and against yesterday's git. > > As far as state of it: > 1. It runs again using new method of communications to ntoskrnl. > 2. It's still more of the prove of concept stage then production quality code. > 3. There are several hacks that needs to be dealt with. > 4. Not yet agreed on what ntoskrnl.exe should be (a dll, or a separate > process). > > > 1) We used named pipe to talk to ntoskrnl directly from the user space. Now > all > the communication is going through wineserver. > > 2) New ioctl code is highly experimental. wineserver needs to use already > setup > objects and structures. To start with, I think user space code and ntoskrnl > code > are good enough. > Driver loading looks fine, with exception of service query. We need some way > to > check if driver is loaded and running (might need to add one more ioctl to the > ntoskrnl). > > 3) ntoskrnl startup is suboptimal. It should look like explorer's startup > (there > are few problems and major differences however). One more hack is associated > with process startup sequence of events. Wine differs from native in such a > way > that brakes safedisc. > > 4) Alexandre offered an idea to make ntoskrnl.exe a dll that could be loaded > by > an existent explorer process. This is an interesting approach, but there could > be some complications associated with it. > > > So to sum it up: we have a working prototype that's been in this state for > almost a year now. It's big project with number of different parts. Each part > could be a big project on it's own if implemented all the way. So if anyone > wants to spend some time learning the subject and getting it into Wine, they > are > very welcome to jump on board. > > Vitaliy. > > > > > -- Email.it, the professional e-mail, gratis per te: http://www.email.it/f Sponsor: Ascolta tutta la musica che vuoi gratis! * Clicca su www.radiosnj.com Clicca qui: http://adv.email.it/cgi-bin/foclick.cgi?mid=5176&d=16-6
