On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 7:21 PM, Martin Gregorie <martin@xxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote: > > I don't know much about drivers on wine. > > The sources include .drv files, but I heard wine does not support win > drivers. > > Can I add drivers to wine? > > > Short answer: No. > > Longer answer: > Wine's job is to intercept Windows system calls and execute one or more > Linux system calls that have the same effect. Then it passes the results > back to your app so it thinks a Windows system call was run. Your app > and Wine are running in userspace. Although some system code runs in > userspace, device drivers are not. > The fact that Windows drivers do not work (currently) out of the box does not mean it is technically impossible. After all, there is NDISWrapper http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NDISwrapper Wine + "wine driver runner" kernel module + Wine implementation of Windows driver API would make what the OP wants possible. He only needs to implement the "wine driver runner kernel module" and the Windows driver APIs :-) -- Pau Garcia i Quiles http://www.elpauer.org (Due to my workload, I may need 10 days to answer) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-users/attachments/20130618/06c9417a/attachment.html>
