@Mov AX, 0xDEAD
I know Windows 98 works a bit differently to 2000/XP, but 98 does have some WDM driver support in the form of it's NTKERN.VXD file that gets used to load WDM drivers on 98.
Since 98 does have some WDM driver support I was wondering if it might be possible to write a WDM extender for 98 to improve hardware support like you did with XP?
Maybe figure out how NTKERN.VXD works?
Some stuff from the 98 DDK that might help: https://ufile.io/5pokmhe8