Re: registry TODO

[Steven Edwards]

Hi,

--- Boaz Harrosh <boaz(a)hishome.net> wrote:
>   How is ReactOS's current (future) system? 
I think ReactOS's registry is binary compatible with NT4. It and the windows 2000
format was
documented/reversed for samba and the linux ntchpwd bootdisk projects. If I remeber right
Eirc
Kohl offered to release some of his work to Wine for the binary format so you might want
to ping
him about the implementation details.

Thanks
Steven



		
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[Saravanan Jayakumar]

Hello,
 I am trying to understand the freeloader code in ReactOS.Can anyone
tell me from which file i need to start,any logical order?.
Your suggestions are greatly appreciated.
regards
 Jay


On Tue, 22 Mar 2005 15:43:40 -0800 (PST), Steven Edwards
<steven_ed4153(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
>   Hi,
>  
>  --- Boaz Harrosh <boaz(a)hishome.net> wrote:
> >   How is ReactOS's current (future) system?
>  
>  I think ReactOS's registry is binary compatible with NT4. It and the windows 2000
> format was
>  documented/reversed for samba and the linux ntchpwd bootdisk projects. If I remeber right
> Eirc
>  Kohl offered to release some of his work to Wine for the binary format so you might want
> to ping
>  him about the implementation details.
>  
>  Thanks
>  Steven
>  
>  
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[Ge van Geldorp]

>   From: Saravanan Jayakumar
>  
>   I am trying to understand the freeloader code in ReactOS.Can 
>  anyone tell me from which file i need to start,any logical 
>  order?. Your suggestions are greatly appreciated. regards  Jay 
There are 2 entry points, one for when you install freeldr in the bootsector
and one for when you call freeldr as a multiboot kernel from Grub. Both of
these entry points are in reactos/boot/freeldr/freeldr/arch/i386/arch.S (the
first entry point is at the top of the file, the second at MultibootEntry).
After doing some setup, both transfer control to BootMain() in
reactos/boot/freeldr/freeldr/freeldr.c. You should be able to pick up the
flow from there.

We have 2 sets of low-level routines for e.g. disk I/O. One set is for
normal PCs, the other for the Xbox. We're using a function table wrapped by
macros to call these routines. All these macros start with "Mach", e.g.
MachDiskReadLogicalSectors(). For a normal PC, this will translate to a call
to PcDiskReadLogicalSectors().

Gé van Geldorp.