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#62
Originally Posted by jsa View Post
Why would anyone write such drivers for WinXP in the first place?
The logical route, to follow ndi (I think) is that if you were to use ReactOS you could apply existing windows drivers or simply write windows-style drivers for it, since the platform is open source.

In a sense, however, this route is flawed since you end up reinventing the wheel to chase an OS architecture you have no real control over for the sake of backwards compatibility, something even Microsoft is having trouble with to the point of virtualizing win32.

It'd still work, unless you went the Motorola route and signed your root file system and kernel, then used a chain of trust to lock the whole thing down (see everything but DROID.)
 

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