Re: Libusbk for Window 10 signing

Xiofan,

the MIT licence part was new to me! Now there is at last some light in
the tunnel! This means it is at last feasible to put people together
and divide driver jobs into smaller tasks.

Personally, I'm an embedded hardware guy. For audio driver development
work I will volunteer UAC2 hardware with open source firmware and
debug (GPIO, RS232, JTAG) options. That should make it much easier to
see what's going on on the Device side of any such driver development.


Børge




On Mon, Oct 5, 2015 at 11:58 AM, Xiaofan Chen <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 5, 2015 at 12:37 PM, Børge Strand-Bergesen
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Don't let the cost of signing scare you off. As long as there are test
>> certificates available for evaluation, I'm sure production
>> certificates can be crowd sourced. You're far from the only guy to
>> bring up this problem. Unfortunately, talking to MS about it is about
>> as productive as talking to a tree.
>
> On the other hand, certificate to sign the driver is just the smallest
> part of the efforts (eg: libusb-win32 project got the money using the
> donation from the mailing list members). Getting somebody who is familiar
> with the kernel mode knowledge to write the driver is the difficult part.
>
> In reality, I have not seen many open source Windows kernel driver
> projects since that is really a niche. The only exception seems to be
> Redhat which has come out with some open source driver to support
> their activities. But again Redhat is a big company.
>
> Maybe things will change now that Microsoft posts the WDF (both KMDF
> and UMDF) source codes in github under a very liberal licence (MIT license).
> URL: https://github.com/Microsoft/Windows-driver-frameworks
>
> So I think it is now not fair to complain about Microsoft not being
> helpful. Rather prepare to climb the steep learning curve
> and develop the driver yourself or prepare to pay for the driver
> development and maintenance.
>
>
>
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> Xiaofan
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