by Yashavant Kanetkar
Writing Device Drivers for Windows is an entirely different discipline from
traditional Application Programming. Device Drivers are Operating System
extensions. In order to extend the OS effectively, a developer needs to
understand many of the detials of the Operating System's architecture and its
working. In addition it is necessary to learn the device driver development
environment and kernel mode debugging. Windows Driver Model (WDM) is an
enhanced form of the NT 4 kernel-mode device driver model. The main structural
changes are the addition of Plug and Play (PnP), Power Management, Windows
Managment Instrumentation (WMI) and Device Interface support. These features
are included in these course notes, along with the details of the necessary
development environment. These course notes impart the knowledge and practise
necessary to begin writing WDM device drivers for Windows XP and Windows 2000.
Using these course notes you would be able to develop an immediately useful
knowledge of how to write device drivers that would interface hardware to
Operating System and to Application Programs
Table Of Contents
- Introduction To Device Drivers
- Kernel Mode Programming
- Windows Driver Model
- Communication Between App and Device Driver
- Hardware Basics
- Building Real World Drivers
- Bus Architectures
- USB Drivers
- Driver Installation
- Driver Testing And Debugging
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