Re: [ros-dev] Kernel Question

[ahmet alper parker]

THANK YOU VERY MUCH! :)

On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 12:06 AM, Timo Kreuzer <timo.kreuzer(a)web.de> wrote:
>   ahmet alper parker wrote:
> >   Why kindly supply some more technical answer
> >  instead of joking?
> >
> >  
>  In theory ReactOS ntoskrnl can be loaded by ntldr from Windows 2003.
>  Together with reactos hal it might actually "boot" (for a low enough
>  value of boot). You would also need reactos ntdll, as it's specific to
>  the system calls in the kernel. Next thing is the file system driver,
>  you will probably not have any luck loading the native ones, due to
>  missing functionality. Then there is win32k, which on Windows expects to
>  be loaded in session space, which ReactOS ntoskrnl doesn't support. So
>  you will be stuck with reactos one, too. Then the rest of the win32
>  subsystem works differently in reactos then in Windows, loading the
>  windows one together with reactos win32k is not possible either. This
>  will affect at least gdi32, user32, csrss and kernel32.dll. So you
>  already ended up with half of reactos anyway. Furthermore I doubt that
>  the Windows registry hives - though they could be read - would fit
>  either our kernel or win32 subsystem very well.
>
>  To make it short: No, it won't work, unless you are a highly skilled NT
>  kernel hacker with lots of spare time.
>
>  Regards,
>  Timo
>
>
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