WRK Visual Studio Solution

Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. You may only use this code if you agree to the terms of the Windows Research Kernel Source Code License agreement (see License.txt). If you do not agree to the terms, do not use the code. *** WRK v1.2 The Windows Research Kernel v1.2 contains the sources for the core of the Windows (NTOS) kernel and a build environment for a kernel that will run on x86 (Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1) and AMD64 (Windows XP x64 Professional) A future version may also support booting WRK kernels on Windows XP x86 systems, but the current kernels will fail to boot due to differences in some shared structures. The NTOS kernel implements the basic OS functions for processes, threads, virtual memory and cache managers, I/O management, the registry, executive functions such as the kernel heap and synchronization, the object manager, the local procedure call mechanism, the security reference monitor, low-level CPU management (thread scheduling, Asynchronous and Deferred Procedure calls, interrupt/trap handling, exceptions), etc. The NT Hardware Abstraction Layer, file systems, network stacks, and device drivers are implemented separately from NTOS and loaded into kernel mode as dynamic libraries. Sources for these dynamic components are not included in the WRK, but some are available in various development kits published by Microsoft, such as the Installable File System (IFS) Kit and the Windows Driver Development Kit (DDK). WRK v1.2 includes most of the NTOS kernel sources from the latest released version of Windows, which supports the AMD64 architecture on the Desktop. The kernel sources excluded from the kit are primarily in the areas of plug-and-play, power management, the device verifier, kernel debugger interface, and virtual dos machine. The primary modifications to WRK from the released kernel are related to cleanup and removal of server support, such as code related to the Intel IA64. *** Organization of the WRK sources The file License.txt contains the license covering use of the WRK. The public\ directory contains a number of include files shared among system components. base\ntos\ contains the NTOS sources. The primary NTOS source components included in the WRK are organized as follows: cache\ - cache manager config\ - registry implementation dbgk\ - user-mode debugger support ex\ - executive functions (kernel heap, synchronization, time) fsrtl\ - file system run-time support io\ - I/O manager ke\ - scheduler, CPU management, low-level synchronization lpc\ - local procedure call implementation mm\ - virtual memory manager ob\ - kernel object manager ps\ - process/thread support se\ - security functions wmi\ - Windows Management Instrumentation inc\ - NTOS-only include files rtl\ - kernel run-time support init\ - kernel startup *** For instructions on how to build and modify the WRK source code, please see "Getting Started with the WRK" in the "..\Docs and Examples" directory. ***