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Date: Sun, 4 Sep 2005 18:30:29 -0700 (PDT)
From: Alex Davis <alex14641@yahoo.com>
Subject: re: RFC: i386: kill !4KSTACKS
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>The NdisWrapper FAQ already tells you that you need a patch for some of 
>the binary-only Windows drivers that require more than 8kB stacks.
>
>And the fact that NdisWrapper is mostly working hinders the development 
>of open source drivers for this hardware.

If the hardware manufacturer won't give you the spec's then writing a driver
is going to be pretty difficult, if not impossible. Reverse-engineering 
may be possible, but still....

I believe it's the lack of spec's, rather than the existence of ndiswrapper
and driverloader, that hinder driver development. 

-Alex


I code, therefore I am

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