Re: 64-bit mode
"Linuxant support (Jonathan)" <[email protected]> Thu, 08 Dec 2005 11:15:55 -0500
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Hi, yes, the previous releases were mostly bug fixes and adding support for new kernels and distributions. I can't tell much about the future of DriverLoader except that we will take a important look at WPA2 support in the near future so it is quite possible that DriverLoader will have WPA2 support in the future. I believe it could be possible to load 32-bit Windows XP on a 64-bit Linux kernel with DriverLoader. However, it is likely to be difficult to add this feature. I don't know the exact details, all I know is that it's not like user land programs where you can load a 32-bit x86 program without having to modify it on a x86_64 kernel. Once 64-bit versions of Windows will be more used, hardware vendors will start to provide 64-bit Windows drivers as well and we will support these with DriverLoader x86_64. Regards, Jonathan Technical specialist / Linuxant www.linuxant.com [email protected] Maxim wrote: > I see, that new releases are almost bugfixes. Have you got any big new > features in plan? If not, please implement loading of 32-bit drivers > in 64-bit mode. Don't say that it is impossible. Linux kernel in > 64-bit mode could run 32-bit applications via special thunks. Could > you implement such thing? I will be glad to test it on sis162 or Atmel > at40c50x. > _______________________________________________ > driverloader mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.linuxant.com/mailman/listinfo/driverloader