[ros-kernel] Drivers...

[Vizzini]

On Mon, 2004-02-16 at 12:30, Robert Köpferl wrote:
> What would you suggest to use?
> 
> MSDDK or ROS-DDK ?
> and testing on the rather stable w2k /xp?
> I'm rather a beginner

If you can, try to get any MS DDK.  The latest DDKs are the best, of
course.  Make sure your driver builds and works perfectly in the MS DDK
and on Win2k; then we'll make it work in ROS.

Do make sure to run under full verifier, and try to check with PreFAST,
if you have the DDK.  Any serious kernel development is going to require
the DDK...

 -Vizzini

> Vizzini schrieb:
> 
> > On Mon, 2004-02-16 at 11:59, Steven Edwards wrote:
> > 
> >>There are quite a few ext2/3 drivers for Windows NT/2K/Xp out on the
> >>Net that are GPL. The big problem using them in ReactOS is that they
> >>are IFS drivers and use SEH. I would suggest just importing one of them
> >>in to CVS and getting it to work.
> > 
> > 
> > As I said elsewhere, we are going to fix the cache manager.  I'm going
> > to start on it next, after finishing up the floppy driver.  That is the
> > major blocker to using off-the-shelf windows IFS drivers.
> > 
> > As for SEH:  if you build the driver with MS tools, it's fine; if you
> > want to build with the ReactOS build environment, you just need to do 
> > 
> > #ifdef _MSC_VER
> > 	try {
> > #endif
> > 
> > ...and so on.  There was a recent thread about porting drivers to
> > ReactOS that should be of some help.  Or, you are welcome to let me know
> > if you have questions.
> > 
> >  -Vizzini
> > 
> > 
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