Re: A journey from NT-Device Driver to WDM

Is it an ISA device or a PCI one?

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Maxim Shatskih, Windows DDK MVP
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"Ali" <abdulrazaq@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Hi All,
> I have designed a board with Atmel chip which provides an I/O
> interfaces for parallel port , its device driver implements only three
> following major functions in DriverEntry routine.
> IRP_MJ_CREATE , IRP_MJ_READ and IRP_MJ_WRITE.
> I want to upgrade its driver to make it plug and play , I want to start
> my win32 application automatically when ever my board is attached with
> DB25 [port of PC], Do I have to write only AddDevice and isr routines
> for doing so?
> I'm some how sure that there is nothing to do with chip code because a
> loop in user mode application can scan the current status of board and
> chip can change the board status when ever instructed by user mode
> application.
> I don't want to upgrade my board for DMA operations so i guess no need
> for loop back mechanism in device driver.
>
>
> Now what should be the basic design of monolithic type Plug and Play
> driver?
> You can see the driver code on following url under Driver Build
> Tutorial link:
> http://powercell.cjb.net/ [my educational webpage]
>
> Hope I would get some usefull hints + tips to finish my work in
> reasonable time. You can see this topic on following link too:
>
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.nt.kernel-mode/browse_frm/thread/5428765490fc2c9d/9ff0f3f5a387b330?hl=en#9ff0f3f5a387b330
> Cheers.
>


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