Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 04 Sep 2005 11:33:53 -0600 | From | Robert Hancock <> | Subject | Re: RFC: i386: kill !4KSTACKS |
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Guillaume Chazarain wrote: > Just a thought : why couldn't ndiswrapper set apart some piece > of memory and use it as the stack by changing the esp register > before executing windows code. > > Like http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.drivers.ndiswrapper.general/4737 > > It's dirty, I know, but after all they are executing win32 code ... > > Why wouldn't this work ?
I think this would be a good idea. I don't see any reason in principle why the ndiswrapper code couldn't use a separate stack for the Win32 driver code. Sharing the stack between the Linux kernel and whatever junk is going on inside the Windows driver seems rather inherently fragile..
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