[ros-dev] Kernel Question

[ahmet alper parker]

THANK YOU VERY MUCH! :)

On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 12:06 AM, Timo Kreuzer <timo.kreuzer at web.de> wrote:
> ahmet alper parker wrote:
>> Why kindly supply some more technical answer
>> instead of joking?
>>
>>
> In theory ReactOS ntoskrnl can be loaded by ntldr from Windows 2003.
> Together with reactos hal it might actually "boot" (for a low enough
> value of boot). You would also need reactos ntdll, as it's specific to
> the system calls in the kernel. Next thing is the file system driver,
> you will probably not have any luck loading the native ones, due to
> missing functionality. Then there is win32k, which on Windows expects to
> be loaded in session space, which ReactOS ntoskrnl doesn't support. So
> you will be stuck with reactos one, too. Then the rest of the win32
> subsystem works differently in reactos then in Windows, loading the
> windows one together with reactos win32k is not possible either. This
> will affect at least gdi32, user32, csrss and kernel32.dll. So you
> already ended up with half of reactos anyway. Furthermore I doubt that
> the Windows registry hives - though they could be read - would fit
> either our kernel or win32 subsystem very well.
>
> To make it short: No, it won't work, unless you are a highly skilled NT
> kernel hacker with lots of spare time.
>
> Regards,
> Timo
>
>
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