New Hardware Device Driver.

Hello Everybody,
I want to start with the driver development for new
hardware. Our device will connect to the system through Memory Controller
Hub->P64H->PCI slot.
Please can anybody help regardign 1]what should be the new hardware driver
specifications? 2]What care should i take while writting the driver which is
directly interacting with hardware? 3]Whether any related sample is available
in WDK? 4]Any web site link for info about writting the new hardware device
driver?

thanks in advance.

Pravin S. Waghurde wrote:
> Hello Everybody,
> I want to start with the driver development for new
> hardware. Our device will connect to the system through Memory Controller
> Hub->P64H->PCI slot.
> Please can anybody help regardign 1]what should be the new hardware driver
> specifications? 2]What care should i take while writting the driver which is
> directly interacting with hardware? 3]Whether any related sample is available
> in WDK? 4]Any web site link for info about writting the new hardware device
> driver?
>

Hello,
Answers to your questions may depend on who you are and what
that device does.
Are you a hardware/electronics engineer, software dev, student?

The basic answer is that one should avoid writing a driver
by all means, if possible. This tends to take more time and
resources than anticipated and brings high risk to
product development.


Regards,
--pa

1 and 2 check windows hw logo requirements on site
3. check
BASEDIR\src\kmdf\pcidrv
for instance
C:\WINDDK\6001.18002\src\kmdf\pcidrv
4. standard ddk documentation, that comes with wdk
--
Tom Picard


"Pravin S. Waghurde" wrote:

> Hello Everybody,
> I want to start with the driver development for new
> hardware. Our device will connect to the system through Memory Controller
> Hub->P64H->PCI slot.
> Please can anybody help regardign 1]what should be the new hardware driver
> specifications? 2]What care should i take while writting the driver which is
> directly interacting with hardware? 3]Whether any related sample is available
> in WDK? 4]Any web site link for info about writting the new hardware device
> driver?
>
> thanks in advance.