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Could you please share a link to NT kernel sources so that I take a look? It is not true that internal architecture of Linux drivers is not clearly defined. It

Could you please share a link to NT kernel sources so that I take a look? It is not true that internal architecture of Linux drivers is not clearly defined. It is just a practical approach to maintenance of drivers (as an author of one Linux hardware driver I'm pretty sure the best possible). Reasoning is outlined in famous "Stable API nonsense" document http://elixir.free-electrons.com/linux/latest/source/Documentation/process/stable-api-nonsense.rst http://elixir.free-electrons.com/linux/latest/source/Documen... I don't think Windows approach is worth praising here. It results in a lot of drivers stopping working after few major Windows release upgrades. In Linux, available drivers can be maintained forever.

nxc18 9y ago
If you are sufficiently motivated, NT 4 leaked many years ago and you could find it; it even has interesting things like DEC Alpha support & various subsystems still included IIRC. Perhaps you could find a newer version like 5.2 on GitHub or another site, but beware, as a Linux dev/contributor, you probably don't want to have access to that. FWIW, I've stumbled upon both of those things in my personal research while I had legitimate access to the 5.2 sources as a student. It turns out Bing will link you directly to the Windows source code if you search for <arcane MASM directive here>. Yes, I'm in the process of reporting this to Microsoft and cleansing myself of that poison apple.