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

[Alex Ionescu]

(And FYI, the level of change that it would take to support WDDM drivers
would be so massive that it completely overshadows the argument of targeting
a fixed kernel version or not).

I have yet to see standard WDM video card drivers work in the first place (I
mean ATI or NVidia).

Best regards,
Alex Ionescu


On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 1:27 AM, Alex Ionescu <ionucu(a)videotron.ca> wrote:

>   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+****
> >
> >  ** **
> >
> >  *From:* ros-dev-bounces(a)reactos.org [mailto:[e-mail]]
> >  *On Behalf Of *Alex Ionescu
> >  *Sent:* Tuesday, 4 October 2011 2:15 AM
> >  *To:* ReactOS Development List
> >  *Subject:* Re: [ros-dev] ReactOS August and September Meeting Minutes****
> >
> >  ** **
> >
> >  I have yet to see drivers/hardware that requires Vista+.****
> >
> >
> >  Best regards,
> >  Alex Ionescu
> >
> >  ****
> >
> >  On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 1:23 PM, Bernd Blaauw <bblaauw(a)home.nl> wrote:****
> >
> >  Op 3-10-2011 19:01, Zachary Gorden schreef:****
> >
> >  ** **
> >
> >  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.
> >  ****
> >
> >  ** **
> >
> >  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 ].
> >
> >  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.
> >
> >  Nonetheless, good thing you lot are able to make up your mind and sticking
> >  to a argumented majority decision.
> >
> >  thanks for the minutes.
> >
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