Background
Why This Project Was Started
WDM Wrapper is my proposed Senior Project to be applied towards my B.S. Degree in Computer Science. The scope of this project is likely beyond what is possible in the allotted time so I don't intend to have the entire scope covered within that time.It can be quite frustrating having old and new hardware around that can't be used because of lack of driver support in Linux. A wrapper for drivers written for Windows seems like a great "when all else fails" solution to this problem.
The intent is to base this project off the NDISWrapper project and extend it to support at least a subset of another class of drivers. Exactly which driver class I will implement is yet to be decided, but will likely be either sound or video capture card drivers.
Other Work in This Area
The Uniform Driver Interface project will likely be a better solution for future devices. However, it is unlikely that existing devices will have support under it.The NDISWrapper project has been around for quite some time now, and while it handles network devices quite nicely it would be nice to have an all purpose wrapper for other classes of devices.
