(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 <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> wrote: > >> WDDM drivers require Vista+**** >> >> ** ** >> >> *From:* [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] >> *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 <[email protected]> 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 >> [email protected] >> http://www.reactos.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-dev**** >> >> ** ** >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Ros-dev mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://www.reactos.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-dev >> >> >
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