binutils & Windows device drivers

Nick Clifton nickc@cambridge.redhat.com
Tue Apr 9 02:46:00 GMT 2002


Hi Laurent,

> Could anyone tell me if binutils supports the PE-386 format used by 
> Windows device drivers (.sys) ?

Sadly, it appears that this format is not supported.

In fact it is not clear of the specification for this format is in the
public domain.  If it is a proprietary specification belonging to
Microsoft, then it will not be possible to add code to binutils to
handle this format.

Cheers
        Nick



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