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 [e-mail] 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 [e-mail] wrote:
> > WDDM drivers require Vista+****
> >
> > *From:* [e-mail] [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 [e-mail] 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.
> >
> > Ros-dev mailing list
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> > http://www.reactos.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-dev****
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