(And FYI, the level of change that it would take to support WDDM drivers would be so massive that it completely overshadows the argument of targeting a fixed kernel version or not).<div><br></div><div>I have yet to see standard WDM video card drivers work in the first place (I mean ATI or NVidia).<br>
<div><br clear="all">Best regards,<br>Alex Ionescu<br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 1:27 AM, Alex Ionescu <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ionucu@videotron.ca">ionucu@videotron.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
I have yet to see video cards that only have WDDM drivers.<div><br clear="all">Best regards,<br><font color="#888888">Alex Ionescu</font><div><div></div><div class="h5"><br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 12:50 AM, dmex <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dmex04@gmail.com" target="_blank">dmex04@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div lang="EN-AU" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D">WDDM drivers require Vista+<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D"><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt"> <a href="mailto:ros-dev-bounces@reactos.org" target="_blank">ros-dev-bounces@reactos.org</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:ros-dev-bounces@reactos.org" target="_blank">ros-dev-bounces@reactos.org</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Alex Ionescu<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, 4 October 2011 2:15 AM<br><b>To:</b> ReactOS Development List<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [ros-dev] ReactOS August and September Meeting Minutes<u></u><u></u></span></p><div><div></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">
<u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">I have yet to see drivers/hardware that requires Vista+.<u></u><u></u></p><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><br clear="all">Best regards,<br>Alex Ionescu<br><br>
<u></u><u></u></p><div><p class="MsoNormal">On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 1:23 PM, Bernd Blaauw <<a href="mailto:bblaauw@home.nl" target="_blank">bblaauw@home.nl</a>> wrote:<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Op <a href="tel:3-10-2011" target="_blank">3-10-2011</a> 19:01, Zachary Gorden schreef:<u></u><u></u></p>
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kernel target. With these considerations, the project has decided to<br>
set both the user and kernel targets to Windows 2003. Dependency on<br>Wine for many user mode libraries actually complicates this, as Wine has<br>been adding Vista and later APIs without proper segregation and the<br>developers will need to figure out how to deal with this in the long run.<u></u><u></u></p>
</blockquote><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><p class="MsoNormal">Limiting things to 2003 might work, with the exception of DirectX, hardware drivers and silly stuff like UEFI and GPT<br>[ <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/hardware/gg463525.aspx" target="_blank">http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/hardware/gg463525.aspx</a> ].<br>
<br>In other words you'll get in trouble as people want to test ReactOS against their own (modern) hardware system (due to drivers focusing on Vista/7/8), and see if ReactOS can run their games.<br><br>Nonetheless, good thing you lot are able to make up your mind and sticking to a argumented majority decision.<br>
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