> Some of them are Open Source (like our
> XFree86 shell drivers), but our OS/2 and Windows drivers are closed
> source. We may Open Source those components in the future as we see
> fit however.
Where can I find the XFree86 shell drivers so I can have a look at it?
btw, is anyone "allowed" to write binary portable device drivers?
> Yes, the core of our device driver technology is completely cross
> platform, binary portable device drivers. Above that is what we call
> the shell driver, which is the OS specific components that make up
> the display driver (ie: the Windows GDI driver, the OS/2 GRADD driver
> and the XFree86 driver).
> The most likely scenario as I see it, is that the actual drivers to
> control the hardware are loaded only by the virtual machine system
> (ie: plex86), and shared by all guest OS'es. Then the guest OS
> drivers talk to the VM hardware driver via some kind of RPC mechanism.
hmm... let me try to understand this, are you talking about plex86
loading hardware drivers for the hosts display adapter and guest os'es
can have "direct" access to the *real* display adapter instead of
"emulating" something?
> It sounds like an interesting project. VMWare intrigues me, but I
> can't play with the internals at all, so plex86 sounds interesting.
Well, I noticed you've been also busy with x86emu, so that's also a
reason why I contacted you :)
--
Best regards,
Jeroen Janssen
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And then you bit onto them, and learned once again that
Cut-me-own-Throat
Dibbler could find a use for bits of an animal that the animal didn't
know
it had got. Dibbler had worked out that with enough fried onions and
mustard people would eat *anything*.
-- A fact McDonalds knows about as well
(Terry Pratchett, Moving Pictures)
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