Project Evil: The Evil Continues
Bill Paul
wpaul at FreeBSD.ORG
Sat Jan 24 20:51:17 PST 2004
> What in the world is Project Evil?
Project Evil (aka the NDISulator) is a special binary compatibility
layer for the FreeBSD kernel that lets you use Windows NDIS drivers
for network adapters with FreeBSD/ia32.
What does Project Evil do:
- Provides a small Windows PE file relocator/dynamic linker
to allow Windows .sys files to be interfaced with the native
code.
- Provides a utility to parse Windows .inf files to extract
device identification data and registry keys.
- Emulates large chunks of NDIS.SYS, HAL.dll and ntoskrnl.exe
with native FreeBSD kernel routines.
- Interfaces the NDIS packet/buffer model with the BSD ifnet/mbuf
model, making an NDIS driver look like an ifnet interface to
the FreeBSD kernel.
- Supports PCI and cardbus devices (and PCMCIA too, eventually).
What doesn't Project Evil do:
- Provide support for USB network devices (this would require
emulating portions of USBD.SYS and portitions of the Windows
I/O model outside of the NDIS API).
- Support Winows modem drivers (this would mean duplicating
big parts of ntoskrnl.exe).
-Bill
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