Sunday, July 8, 2007

Windows Driver Under linux !!!

Its crazy Idea for many years back..but now Linuxant Inc made it and showed Linux world that, one can access the Hardware with Windows Driver also..
This makes many users comfortably switch from BlueBox (I refer Windows Some time as blue box) to Linux also manufacturer need not to take pain to write the driver for different OS.
In this Regard , Linux Programmers and experts has to standardize the process of writing wrappers in such a way that any OS driver can be portable under Linux. This should be ultimate target for the Linux Programmer.
By doing this we can get benefits of using the different OS drivers, but it may lead to many Linux driver programmers to re think about his capabilities and expertise they achieved in the Driver programing..
For the Linux driver programmer it is always testing time when he/she writes the Kernel Driver, kernel is adopting many new features in it, programmer is suffering lot in writing drivers and using full features of the kernel. I agree that many parts of the programming interface is logically same to the driver programmer but it is not same .
Linux Kernel has more capabilities than any other OS's Only if it segregates its drivers(not Basic drivers) From its kernel..
Finally, I conclude with windows drivers porting on Linux is very helpful and i request the linux and windows driver programmers to give their views about in this regard.

Shiva..

3 comments:

Diwakar said...

Hey Shiva, great start for the Blog.Keep going....
All the best for ur future blogs.

--Diwakar D

Unknown said...

thank you...

arupendu said...

use wine...for softwares