On Tue, 14 Mar 2000, Uwe Bonnes wrote:
> Hallo,
>
> I have some legacy device which was handled under Dos/Win30 with a
> custom interrupt handler at Int7b (managing direct hardware access)
> and a windows program calling Int7b to get data from that device. As
> most other users here at our site still use Win95, I would like to
> support that combo with
> Linux/Mingw32-Crosscompiler/Wine and some special treatment for the
> interrupt Int7b, either accessing the hardware direct or via some
> device driver I have to write. I don't like to write a Win95|8 device
> driver
>
> As this Int7b handler is highly propriatary ( but the code is no
> secret), I would like to have a modular way to announce this custom
> Interrupt to wine, perhaps by providing some .so file, hopefully
> without a need to recompile wine when I do changes to the interrupt
> handler.
>
> Any ideas how to do so?
Could you be more specific about what sort of device this is - SCSI card?
Data acquisition card? Coffee machine? (And if the latter, where can I get
one? :)
Depending on the API you need to provide, I would lean towards first
writing a Linux device driver (communicating via /dev/coffeemachine or
whatever), then implementing an int 7b handler in Wine which talks to
/dev/coffeemachine.
James.
