Re: [ros-dev] ReactOS August and September Meeting Minutes

[Alex Ionescu]

I have yet to see video cards that only have WDDM drivers.

Best regards,
Alex Ionescu


On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 12:50 AM, dmex <dmex04(a)gmail.com> wrote:

>   WDDM drivers require Vista+****
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>  I have yet to see drivers/hardware that requires Vista+.****
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>  Best regards,
>  Alex Ionescu
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>  On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 1:23 PM, Bernd Blaauw <bblaauw(a)home.nl> wrote:****
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>  Op 3-10-2011 19:01, Zachary Gorden schreef:****
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>  kernel target.  With these considerations, the project has decided to
>  set both the user and kernel targets to Windows 2003.  Dependency on
>  Wine for many user mode libraries actually complicates this, as Wine has
>  been adding Vista and later APIs without proper segregation and the
>  developers will need to figure out how to deal with this in the long run.*
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>  Limiting things to 2003 might work, with the exception of DirectX, hardware
>  drivers and silly stuff like UEFI and GPT
>  [ http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/hardware/gg463525.aspx ].
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>  In other words you'll get in trouble as people want to test ReactOS against
>  their own (modern) hardware system (due to drivers focusing on Vista/7/8),
>  and see if ReactOS can run their games.
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>  Nonetheless, good thing you lot are able to make up your mind and sticking
>  to a argumented majority decision.
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>  thanks for the minutes.
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