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Hermès Bélusca-Maïto e1ef078741 Create this branch to work on loading of different Kernel-Debugger DLL providers, and see whether it is possible to move KDBG from ntoskrnl to a new DLL called, say, KDROSDBG.DLL.
The idea then would be to have the following behaviour (when specifying the following options in the kernel command line):

/DEBUGPORT=COMi --> load KDCOM.DLL and use COMi port (i == 1,2,3,4) if possible.
/DEBUGPORT=FOO  --> load KDFOO.DLL (useful for KDUSB.DLL, KD1394.DLL, KDBAZIS.DLL for VirtualKD, etc...)
/DEBUGPORT=ROSDBG:[COMi|SCREEN|FILE|GDB|...] --> load KDROSDBG.DLL which contains the ROS kernel debugger, and use COMi or SCREEN or... as output port.

svn path=/branches/kd++/; revision=58883
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ReactOS™ Version 0.3.x

Updated March 3, 2013

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1. What is ReactOS?

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ReactOS™ is an Open Source effort to develop a quality operating system that is

compatible with applications and drivers written for the Microsoft® Windows™ NT

family of operating systems (NT4, 2000, XP, 2003, Vista, Seven).



Website: http://www.reactos.org





2. Relationship with the WINE project

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ReactOS has always intended to work with the WINE project to share as much

programming effort as possible. This mainly concerns User Mode DLLs and

still happens to a degree today. Other areas of cooperation lie in

applications and testing suites.





3. Future compatibility

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The ReactOS project, although currently focused on Windows Server 2003

compatibility, is always keeping an eye toward compatibility with

Windows Vista and future Windows NT releases.





4. Supporting other System Applications

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The Windows NT architecture allows for subsystems, as does the ReactOS

architecture. A subsystem is an implementation of the APIs of another

operating system, allowing ReactOS to run applications from other systems.

We are already looking at subsystems for: Java, OS/2, and DOS and possibly

others in the future.





5. Tutorials

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Developer and User Tutorials: http://www.reactos.org/wiki



The tutorials contain more information on the project, compiling and testing

ReactOS - amongst other topics. Contributors to the project are always welcome.





6. Author

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This document was written by Jason Filby ([email protected]).