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Quim
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drivers to get AHCI support in ReactOS

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Here a list of unofficial drivers to get AHCI support under Windows XP, applying to ROS when it will be necesary:

http://www.win-raid.com/t22f23-Guide-In ... -k-CD.html

Original article:
https://www.tecnogaming.com/2017/01/ins ... e-moderno/

(Use Google Translate of course).
r3mendozal
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Re: drivers to get AHCI support in ReactOS

Post by r3mendozal »

There are 2 reasons we can't do that. One technical and other legal. I'll expose technical reason first and then the legal one:

Technical: Our actual driver model and PnP stack isn't compatible with 3rd party storage drivers as the ones you linked from that page. These drivers need a full NT5 WDM driver model stack, while ROS actual model is a hack mixture between the old NT4 Non-PnP driver stack and the NT5 WDM one. Actually there is one dev working to fix our actual situation, but since he work in an external way, we don't really know when his work will be ready, and furthermore, we need his assistance to review and break his work in commitable patches for master, so we don't know when his work and fixes will be available in official system releases.

Legal: Even with ROS being compatible with the drivers, we can't integrate them in official releases due not having the proper redistributable licenses from these IHVs for them. Licenses bundled in these packages is tailored only for users downloading that code from the hardware manufacturer page, and generally contains clauses which in one or other way forbid any other usage without the special license and permissions from them. That means is up to the user download our builder and integrate whatever extra code (drivers included) they want, with the user taking responsability on any usage or missusage of that code.
Quim
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Re: drivers to get AHCI support in ReactOS

Post by Quim »

r3mendozal wrote: Thu Dec 13, 2018 7:48 pm
Legal: Even with ROS being compatible with the drivers, we can't integrate them in official releases due not having the proper redistributable licenses from these IHVs for them. Licenses bundled in these packages is tailored only for users downloading that code from the hardware manufacturer page, and generally contains clauses which in one or other way forbid any other usage without the special license and permissions from them. That means is up to the user download our builder and integrate whatever extra code (drivers included) they want, with the user taking responsability on any usage or missusage of that code.
I´m not saying to integrate them officially. It just to use in unofficial testing and general testing only, downloading, using and testing them in sole user´s responsibility and risk.
If someone has the kind of harware for these drivers, he/she could test with ROS 0.4.10 or better in 0.5.x beta.
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