WindowsDeviceDriverCourse Overview

Windows Architecture Issues The implications of NT/2000/XP design on driver architecture Driver Design Driver Implementation Installing Drivers Debugging Drivers The API Interface and API Design Issues		Windows 2000/XP Drivers Developing Drivers for Windows 2000 and XP How to Convert Legacy Drivers Supporting FireWire (IEEE-1394) How 64-bit Drivers Will Work Power Management Plug and Play
Windows Architecture Layered Drivers Memory Allocation Options  Lookaside Lists IRQ Levels  Driver Threads Multiprocessing, preemptive multithreading, interrupts, and their requirements for synchronization; primitives for accomplishing synchronization		Overview of Windows Drivers Kernel-Mode Drivers Miniport Drivers Windows Driver Model (WDM) Drivers Graphics Drivers Network Drivers
Overview of the Software Development Kits and Device Interfaces WinNT DDK Win32 SDK Video Displays Networks PCMCIA Storage Printers Multimedia Communications Input		Debugging Environment Environment Variations Setup Procedures Using Windbg Kernel Debugging Options Debugging Techniques Interpreting System Bug Check Information Stack Traces Debugging Hang Conditions Hardware Profiles
Overview of Windows NT Drivers User-Mode Drivers Kernel-Mode Drivers Windows Driver Model (WDM) Drivers Miniport Drivers Graphics Drivers Network Drivers		Developing the Driver Building Debugging Tuning Testing
Writing a Driver Required Entry Points Driver Objects and Resources Initializing Device Objects and Extensions Processing Input and Output in Kernel Mode Serializing the Driver Processing Using the Structured Exception Handler Processing Windows NT Requests Communicating with the Driver : operations Communicating with the Driver : passing data Latency within the driver Trapping Errors and Recovering Event and Error Logging Direct Memory Access (DMA) Issues Registry Manipulation Performing File I/O Within a Driver Using Timers Fully Asynchronous Bidirectional ("Full  Duplex") Driver Issues Installing and Configuring the Driver