[syslinux] State of memdisk-acpi

[Sebastian Herbszt]

Shao Miller wrote:
> On 11/8/2012 15:45, Sebastian Herbszt wrote:
>> I wrote:
>>> Shao Miller wrote:
>>>> I finished writing an NT physical memory driver several days ago and
>>>> it works.  It's just a matter of porting the DOS mdiskchk, now.  You
>>>> can see (and hopefully compile) the driver at
>>>> git://git.zytor.com/users/sha0/mdiskchk_win.git
>>>
>>> Nice, will try to figure out how to compile it.
>>
>> pmem compile worked with the 'build' command of the WDK (7.1.0).  I had
>> to remove the Makefile from the 'sys' directory to avoid the following
>> error:
>>
>> 1>errors in directory mdiskchk_win-e0225f4\sys
>> 1>mdiskchk_win-e0225f4\sys\makefile(5) : error U1033: syntax error : '='
>> unexpected
>>
> 
> Yes, I noticed that Linux Makefile interferes with the DDK build 
> process, since both will try to use a file named 'Makefile', but I 
> haven't figured a nice work-around, yet, to allow both build 
> environments to use the same directory.
> 
> For some odd reason, I assumed you'd be building with MinGW under Linux. :)

I first tried MinGW on Windows, but failed.
Got "error: #error Compiler version not supported by Windows DDK" and more.

>> I think i successfully wrote a program to access physical memory through
>> pmem by using
>> OpenSCManager, CreateService, OpenService, StartService, CreateFile,
>> SetFilePointer,
>> ReadFile, CloseHandle, ControlService, DeleteService and
>> CloseServiceHandle.
>>
> 
> It's nice to see someone else using those functions. :)  I already have 
> another project that automatically installs and starts a driver up, as 
> needed, so I was just going to copy it with minor changes.  It uses the 
> functions you've mentioned, here.

That windows stuff feels cumbersome to me.

Sebastian