Re: Lots of easy questions about drivers/linking

From: Andrew (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 03/11/04 

Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2004 17:41:05 -0800

Hi Steve.

1) I guess I may be assuming too much. We have a device
that needs to be running 99.99% percent of the time. I
want to be able to download new driver and application
versions to my target without restarting the target. I
know the other RTOSs that I have worked on have had this
facility and I guess I just assumed that WinCE could do
this as well. Can I stop (or pause) any process accessing
a DLL, replace the DLL and restart the process?

2) The problem is that I am porting the RNE_MDD and a
PXA255 USB RNDIS PDD. I have compiled the PDD component
as a static library and linked it into my MDD (dll).
Maybe I should compile the lot into a lib and then have a
skeleton driver that links it and creates a dll?

Cheers, Andrew

>-----Original Message-----
>1) You can't update MODULES in ROM they way it sounds
like you want. Can you
>be more specific about the scenario you are after?
>2) To use the same code in a boot loader and as a full
driver you create a
>library that has the core device code and link that into
the boot loader you
>then have the full device driver interface and multi-
threading
>synchronization etc... build as a dll that also links to
the static library
>to pull in the code common to both.
>
>--
>Steve Maillet (eMVP)
>Entelechy Consulting
>smaillet_AT_EntelechyConsulting_DOT_com
>
>
>.
>

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