Re: windows drivers on wine
Martin Gregorie <[email protected]> Tue, 18 Jun 2013 18:21:17 +0100
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.emulators.wine.user |
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| Organization | Martin Gregorie |
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On Wed, 2013-06-19 at 01:33 +0915, まちゃぴろ wrote: > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: まちゃぴろ <[email protected]> > Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2013 01:14:31 +0915 > Subject: windows drivers on wine > To: [email protected] > > I don't know much about drivers on wine. > The sources include .drv files, but I heard wine does not support win drivers. > Can I add drivers to wine? > Short answer: No. Longer answer: Wine's job is to intercept Windows system calls and execute one or more Linux system calls that have the same effect. Then it passes the results back to your app so it thinks a Windows system call was run. Your app and Wine are running in userspace. Although some system code runs in userspace, device drivers are not. Martin Windows drivers have a different API to Linux