I'm sure people have asked questions about integrating wine into the linux kernel. Probably got flamed by everybody, yeah? But that's not what I'm posting about. Not directly, anyway. =)
I'm thinking of writing a kernel patch for PE executable support. Is there any reason why wine libraries should not be used in a similar manner as standard linux libraries? Granted wine is more than just it's libraries. Anyway, good idea, bad idea?
And please keep the "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" comments to yourself. No progress is made with that mentality.
Will
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On Mon, Jun 03, 2002 at 02:58:35AM -0400, William Knop wrote:
I'm sure people have asked questions about integrating wine into the linux kernel. Probably got flamed by everybody, yeah? But that's not what I'm
Not realy. A wine kernel patch already exists, see ftp://ftp.infradead.org/pub/people/dwh . And Linus dosn't oppose the idea of having a wine/windows support in the kernel: http://lists.insecure.org/linux-kernel/2000/Sep/1504.html .
bye michael
posting about. Not directly, anyway. =)
I'm thinking of writing a kernel patch for PE executable support. Is there any reason why wine libraries should not be used in a similar manner as standard linux libraries? Granted wine is more than just it's libraries. Anyway, good idea, bad idea?
And please keep the "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" comments to yourself. No progress is made with that mentality.
On Mon, Jun 03, 2002 at 05:43:11PM +0200, Michael Stefaniuc wrote:
And Linus dosn't oppose the idea of having a wine/windows support in the kernel: http://lists.insecure.org/linux-kernel/2000/Sep/1504.html .
Umm, to be more precise: Linus wasn't opposed to someting like that at the time of the writing. He has been known to change his mind from time to time.
ciao Jörg
-- Joerg Mayer jmayer@loplof.de I found out that "pro" means "instead of" (as in proconsul). Now I know what proactive means.
It's been a while since I looked at the compilation options of the kernel, but there used to be specific support for java applets in the kernel (running a userland jvm, mind you). That was later deprecated by a "MISC" handler, that (I guess) could be configured to run java, and probably also PE.
The idea is that trying to execve a PE file, will find the userland wine program and run it. This would make your effort needless.
Shachar
William Knop wrote:
I'm sure people have asked questions about integrating wine into the linux kernel. Probably got flamed by everybody, yeah? But that's not what I'm posting about. Not directly, anyway. =)
I'm thinking of writing a kernel patch for PE executable support. Is there any reason why wine libraries should not be used in a similar manner as standard linux libraries? Granted wine is more than just it's libraries. Anyway, good idea, bad idea?
And please keep the "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" comments to yourself. No progress is made with that mentality.
Will
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Il lun, 2002-06-03 alle 17:49, Shachar Shemesh ha scritto:
It's been a while since I looked at the compilation options of the kernel, but there used to be specific support for java applets in the kernel (running a userland jvm, mind you). That was later deprecated by a "MISC" handler, that (I guess) could be configured to run java, and probably also PE.
The idea is that trying to execve a PE file, will find the userland wine program and run it. This would make your effort needless.
FWIW, it seems that both RedHat and Mandrake come with a script that does the correct setup at boot.
All it does is:
/sbin/modprobe binfmt_misc &>/dev/null
echo ':windows:M::MZ::/usr/local/bin/wine:' \ >/proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc/register
echo ':windowsPE:M::PE::/usr/local/bin/wine:' \ >/proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc/register
bye,
/pietrobo
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