Hi
I recently got the chance to try out ReactOS for my first time. It seems to me just about nothing works, it takes an expert to compile it (I had to download 2 different mingw-linux versions, fix an assembly language syntax error and comment out broken netkittcp code), but it's a very cute operating systems that boots faster than any other I've ever seen.
Anyway, I recently started looking at how to make Windows device drivers (it's interesting...), and I thought I'd make a couple for ReactOS. I had several in mind:
-A USB mass storage device driver (when I plugged my USB flash disk in, it didn't flash and no new disk showed up, so I assume they currently aren't supported) I believe that the driver is called USBSTOR.SYS on Win2k?
-A USBSCAN.SYS for USB scanners [I am already working on an STI (Still Image service) implementation, and seeing as the Wine folks aren't thrilled at having me add device drivers into Wine, which is necessary for many scanners, I think I'll make STI for ReactOS instead :-) ].
-A driver for the XFS filesystem. I've already got a hacked-up collection of XFS code from GRUB to compile. Now just to turn it into a proper driver...
But before I even get started, how well is USB supported under ReactOS? Why is there no USBLIB.H in the DDK headers? Does anyone know good resources for USB programming under Windows? And any advice for filesystem drivers?
Thank you Damjan
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