WHQL signing confusion

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Hi,

I have developed a display driver I would like to have CAT-signed by WHQL.

My driver consists of three binaries and a single INF. The installer is an
executable, with the binaries and the INF file embedded. When installing,
the installer extracts binaries and INF and installs the usual way (class
installer etc). The driver loads at boot-time.

1)
I have signed the 32bit and 64bit binaries with signtool.exe. Can I just
ship my driver as three (six) binaries and an inf-file to WHQL, or do I need
to package it in some way (e.g. a CAB-file)??

2)
When/if WHQL accepts and signs my driver, I get a CAT file in return. I
reference this file from the inf-file (CatalogFile=...). If I include the
CAT file in above mentioned installer, everything should work. .. right? Or
do I need to install in some other way??

3)
When I get my driver CAT-signed, and I discover and fix a bug in it, do I
need to start all over with WHQL?

4)
I'm completely new to driver signing, so any other advice you may have will
be greatly appreciated!


Thanks and regards,
Sebastian Bargmann


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