[Bug 20098] Wine should, when possible, provide the kernel mode environment for kernel mode drivers

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20098

red-ray  changed:

What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|CLOSED                      |UNCONFIRMED
         Resolution|WONTFIX                     |
            Summary|Wine fails to run my Kernel |Wine should, when possible,
                   |Mode Driver in Kernel Mode  |provide the kernel mode
                   |                            |environment for kernel mode
                   |                            |drivers
              Alias|                            |RDMSR

--- Comment #10 from red-ray   2009-09-25 03:07:04 ---
(In reply to comment #9)
> Closing.  By the way, you have enough knowledge to work around this yourself. 
> Why not give it a go?

I have worked around this, but currently the work-a-round is messy as I have to
send /bin/mknod and /bin/rm commands to the shell using _system().  I tried
asking for wine_mknod() (http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20081) and a
fix for DeleteFile() (http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20071) so I could
do this tidly, but those were dismissed.

As regards security Wine reading /dev/cpu/<n>/msr is no different to SIV
reading them.

I suspect what I really need is a "semi-linelib" app.  What would be ideal for
me is a winelib.dll that allowed me to load and call native *nix functions, but
from a Windows .exe.

Currently I am tempted to simply stop bothering to fix SIV run well on Wine