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Re: How to write hardware drivers
« on: September 07, 2007, 12:44:39 AM »
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Why not instead write a "wrapper" for Windows drivers

Windows drivers are x86 code. The driver would need to run thru two levels of emulation: 1) x86 CPU 2) Windows API wrapper.

For drivers such as gfxcard, audio or input you'd also need DirectX/DirectAudio etc. Not very practical solution I'd say, and certainly very slow.

If this had been feasible solution it would have been done 10 years ago already.