Look at how the Core Fonts for the Web are handled. We
should have generic
 drivers that are 'good enough' to be able get online and download the
 Microsoft ones if the user wants to take the risk of violating Microsofts
 license.
 On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 9:27 AM, Alex Ionescu <ionucu(a)videotron.ca> wrote:
  These are all legitimate concerns for a FAT
driver, but keep in mind the
 WDK library also has things like large chunks of the storage stack, the
 input stack, the floppy stack, audio and network stuff, etc...
 We could decide to keep our current FAT driver (or find a workaround),
 but still implement this idea for the other drivers.
 Best regards,
 Alex Ionescu
 On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 6:37 AM, Michael Fritscher <michael(a)fritscher.net>wrote;wrote:
  Hi,
 normally, I wouldn't have any problem with having drivers on a second
 disc
 / image. But FAT (and in particular cdfs) are core-drivers in my opinion,
 which are needed almost every time - also for booting from CD for
 installation. FAT is widely used still today, e.g. on usb-sticks.
 What are currently the biggest problems in these drivers? If remember
 correctly, our cache manager isn't compatible to the one in Windows, and
 these drivers have workarounds, is it?
 Perhaps the drivers could be written by a GSoC project or something like
 that?
 Additionally, what about NTFS? Is there a ntfs-driver in the MSDN-library
 as is the FAT-driver? If not, almost nothing is won if we use the
 fat-driver from MS: The OS- dependent part of the ntfs-driver need to be
 written from scratch from us anyway, which could then be reused by our
 FAT-driver. And hey, the filesystem part of the FAT-driver shouldn't be
 too complicated if we managed to write a NTFS-driver^^
 Best regards,
 Michael Fritscher
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